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n.
A shallow metallic cup or drum, with a thin elastic membrane supporting a writing lever. Two or more of these are connected by an India rubber tube, and used to transmit and register the movements of the pulse or of any pulsating artery.
v. t.
To increase the strength, vigor, or vehemence of; to excite; to intensify; to invigorate; to heighten; as, to raise the pulse; to raise the voice; to raise the spirits or the courage; to raise the heat of a furnace.
n.
A certain contrivance in an organ, which causes the notes to sound with rapid pulses or beats, producing a tremulous effect; -- called also tremolant, and tremulant.
n.
The state of being pulseless.
v. i.
To beat, as the arteries; to move in pulses or beats; to pulsate; to throb.
n.
An instrument for recording the respiratory movements, as the sphygmograph does those of the pulse.
a.
Excessive dicrotic; as, a hyperdicrotic pulse.
n.
The obtaining of a curve similar to a pulse curve or sphygmogram by allowing the blood from a divided artery to strike against a piece of paper.
n.
An electrical instrument for determining by the ear the rhythm of the pulse of a person at a distance.
n.
A tracing, called a pulse tracing, consisting of a series of curves corresponding with the beats of the heart, obtained by the application of the sphygmograph.
superl.
Deficient in vital energy; feeble; weak; as, a low pulse; made low by sickness.
v. i.
To beat, or pulsate, with more than usual force or rapidity; to beat in consequence of agitation; to palpitate; -- said of the heart, pulse, etc.
a.
Of or pertaining to the pulse.
v. i.
To move with rapidity or activity; to become accelerated; as, his pulse quickened.
n.
An instrument which, when applied over an artery, indicates graphically the movements or character of the pulse. See Sphygmogram.
superl.
Evincing health; as, a healthy pulse; a healthy complexion.
n.
A stalk or stem of certain species of grain, pulse, etc., especially of wheat, rye, oats, barley, more rarely of buckwheat, beans, and pease.
n.
An instrument for measuring the strength of the pulse beat; a sphygmograph.
a.
Exhibiting retarded dicrotism; as, a hypodicrotic pulse curve.
n.
That condition of the arterial pulse in which there is a triple beat. The pulse curve obtained in the sphygmographic tracing characteristic of tricrotism shows two secondary crests in addition to the primary.
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