Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A medicinal agent which increases the pulse.
- Exciting the pulse; causing pulsation.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Exciting the pulse; causing pulsation.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Exciting the
pulse ; causingpulsation .
Etymologies
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pulse + Latin facere to make.
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Examples
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Harvey rightly denied that the arteries possessed any pulsific power of their own, and maintained that their pulse is owing solely to the sudden distension of their walls by the blood thrown into them at each contraction of the ventricles.
Fathers of Biology Charles McRae
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Still Galen appears by this experiment to prove both that the pulsative property extends from the heart by the walls of the arteries, and that the arteries, whilst they dilate, are filled by that pulsific force, because they expand like bellows, and do not dilate as if they are filled like skins.
Introduction 1909
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