Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Physiology Of or relating to the pulse.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Of or pertaining to the pulse.
- In zoology, pulsating or pulsatile; beating with rhythmic contraction and dilatation, like a pulse; specifically, belonging to the Sphygmica.
Wiktionary
- adj. physiology, rare Of or pertaining to the circulatory pulse.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. (Physiol.) Of or pertaining to the pulse.
Etymologies
- From the Latin sphygmicus, from the Ancient Greek σφυγμικός (sphugmikos), from σφυγμός (sphugmos, "pulse"), whence sphygm-. (Wiktionary)
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