Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The secondary oscillation occurring in the ascending portion of a sphygmographic or pulse-recording tracing. See
sphygmograph .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Physiol.) A secondary notch in the pulse curve, obtained in a sphygmographic tracing.
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- noun biology A
secondary notch in thepulse curve , obtained in asphygmographic tracing .
Etymologies
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Ancient Greek up, again + a stroke.
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