Word Meanings - DICROTIC - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Of or pertaining to dicrotism; as, a dicrotic pulse. Of or pertaining to the second expansion of the artery in the dicrotic pulse; as, the dicrotic wave.

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• SECOND
  1. Immediately following the first; next to the first in order of place or time; hence, occuring again; another; other. And he slept and dreamed the second time. Gen. xli. 5. 2. Next to the first in value, power, excellence, dignity,
• PULSE
  Leguminous plants, or their seeds, as beans, pease, etc. If all the world Should, in a pet of temperance, feed on pulse. Milton.
• DICROTISM
  A condition in which there are two beats or waves of the arterial pulse to each beat of the heart.
• SECOND-CLASS
  Of the rank or degree below the best highest; inferior; second- rate; as, a second-class house; a second-class passage.
• DICROTIC
  Of or pertaining to dicrotism; as, a dicrotic pulse. Of or pertaining to the second expansion of the artery in the dicrotic pulse; as, the dicrotic wave.
• SECONDER
  One who seconds or supports what another attempts, affirms, moves, or proposes; as, the seconder of an enterprise or of a motion.
• SECONDLY
  In the second place.
• PULSELESSNESS
  The state of being pulseless.
• SECOND-SIGHT
  The power of discerning what is not visible to the physical eye, or of foreseeing future events, esp. such as are of a disastrous kind; the capacity of a seer; prophetic vision. he was seized with a fit of second-sight. Addison. Nor less availed
• EXPANSION
  Enlargement or extension of business transaction; esp., increase of the circulation of bank notes. (more info) 1. The act of expanding or spreading out; the condition of being expanded; dilation; enlargement. 2. That which is expanded; expanse;
• PERTAIN
  stretch out, reach, pertain; per + tenere to hold, keep. See Per-, 1. To belong; to have connection with, or dependence on, something, as an appurtenance, attribute, etc.; to appertain; as, saltness pertains to the ocean; flowers pertain to plant
• SECOND-SIGHTED
  Having the power of second-sight. Addison.
• SECONDHAND
  1. Not original or primary; received from another. They have but a secondhand or implicit knowledge. Locke. 2. Not new; already or previously or used by another; as, a secondhand book, garment. At second hand. See Hand, n., 10.
• SECOND-RATE
  Of the second size, rank, quality, or value; as, a second-rate ship; second-rate cloth; a second-rate champion. Dryden.
• SECONDARINESS
  The state of being secondary. Full of a girl's sweet sense of secondariness to the object of her love. Mrs. Oliphant.
• SECONDARY
  A secondary quill. (more info) 1. One who occupies a subordinate, inferior, or auxiliary place; a delegate deputy; one who is second or next to the chief officer; as, the secondary, or undersheriff of the city of London. Old Escalus . . . is thy
• SECONDO
  The second part in a concerted piece.
• ARTERY
  One of the vessels or tubes which carry either venous or arterial blood from the heart. They have tricker and more muscular walls than veins, and are connected with them by capillaries. Note: In man and other mammals, the arteries which contain
• PULSELESS
  Having no pulsation; lifeless.
• SECONDARILY
  1. In a secondary manner or degree. 2. Secondly; in the second place. God hath set some in the church, first apostels, secondarily prophets, thirdly teachers. 1 Cor. xii. 28.
• REPULSER
  One who repulses, or drives back.
• EXPULSER
  An expeller. Cotgrave.
• REPULSE
  1. To repel; to beat or drive back; as, to repulse an assault; to repulse the enemy. Complete to have discovered and repulsed Whatever wiles of foe or seeming friend. Milton. 2. To repel by discourtesy, coldness, or denial; to reject; to send away;
• HYPODICROTIC; HYPODICROTOUS
  Exhibiting retarded dicrotism; as, a hypodicrotic pulse curve.
• EXPULSE
  To drive out; to expel. If charity be thus excluded and expulsed. Milton.
• AMPERE HOUR; AMPERE MINUTE; AMPERE SECOND
  The quantity of electricity delivered in one hour by a current whose average strength is one ampère. It is used as a unit of quantity, and is equal to 3600 coulombs. The terms Ampère minute and Ampère second are sometimes similarly used.
• CATADICROTISM
  Quality or state of being catacrotic. -- Cat`a*di*crot"ic ,
• HYPERDICROTIC
  Excessive dicrotic; as, a hyperdicrotic pulse.