Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Undergoing pulsation; vibrating.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Capable of pulsating; pulsating or pulsatory; throbbing; beating.
- Requiring to be struck in order to produce sound; in music, noting an instrument the tone of which is produced by blows, as of a hammer, as a drum, tambourine, cymbals, or a bell.
- noun A musical instrument which is sounded by means of blows.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Capable of being struck or beaten; played by beating or by percussion.
- adjective Pulsating; throbbing, as a tumor.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
pulsating orvibrating - adjective characterized by
pulses
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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In October 2003, it found that a treatment known as pulsatile lavage -- which uses a spray-like device to irrigate and treat wounds -- was also dispersing acinetobacter from patients who carried the bug into the air via droplets.
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One of these is known as pulsatile tinnitus and this will normally time in with the beating of the heart.
xml's Blinklist.com 2008
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One of these is known as pulsatile tinnitus and this will normally time in with the beating of the heart.
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One of these is known as pulsatile tinnitus and this will normally time in with the beating of the heart.
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One of these is known as pulsatile tinnitus and this will normally time in with the beating of the heart.
xml's Blinklist.com 2008
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If you have pulsatile tinnitus, you hear noises in time with your pulse.
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There was a reversal of end-diastolic blood flow seen in the ductus venosus and umbilical artery and pulsatile flow seen in the umbilical vein.
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Muslims and indeed all faithful who fail to shelter the treasures and followers of Judaism must know when we deny their origins, when we deny their painful history, when we deny the Shoah, when we instead feed or fuel their current fears, we stand to lose our own noble origins and our fused, quite pulsatile heritage.
Qanta Ahmed, MD: Adventures of an Accidental Zionist: Encounters with the Anxiety of Jewish Extinction MD Qanta Ahmed 2010
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Muslims and indeed all faithful who fail to shelter the treasures and followers of Judaism must know when we deny their origins, when we deny their painful history, when we deny the Shoah, when we instead feed or fuel their current fears, we stand to lose our own noble origins and our fused, quite pulsatile heritage.
Qanta Ahmed, MD: Adventures of an Accidental Zionist: Encounters with the Anxiety of Jewish Extinction MD Qanta Ahmed 2010
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Muslims and indeed all faithful who fail to shelter the treasures and followers of Judaism must know when we deny their origins, when we deny their painful history, when we deny the Shoah, when we instead feed or fuel their current fears, we stand to lose our own noble origins and our fused, quite pulsatile heritage.
Qanta Ahmed, MD: Adventures of an Accidental Zionist: Encounters with the Anxiety of Jewish Extinction MD Qanta Ahmed 2010
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