Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Same as
pulsatile .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Beating; throbbing.
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- adjective
beating ;throbbing
Etymologies
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Examples
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By means of apparatus specially devised, pulsative plants were made to record their rhythmic throbbings.
Sir Jagadis Chunder Bose His Life and Speeches Sir Jagadis Chunder Bose
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The arteries, Galen thought, possessed a pulsative and attractive power of their own, independently of the heart, the moment of their dilatation being the moment of their activity.
Fathers of Biology Charles McRae
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It is by means, and only by means, of periodic pulsative movements that we ever do or can measure Time.
Essays Towards a Theory of Knowledge Alexander Philip
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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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Do not let the thickness of the arterial tunics impose upon us, and lead us to conclude that the pulsative property proceeds along them from the heart.
Introduction 1909
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Do not let the thickness of the arterial tunics impose upon us, and lead us to conclude that the pulsative property proceeds along them from the heart For in several animals the arteries do not apparently differ from the veins; and in extreme parts of the body where the arteries are minutely subdivided, as in the brain, the hand, etc., no one could distinguish the arteries from the veins by the dissimilar characters of their coats: the tunics of both are identical.
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Do not let the thickness of the arterial tunics impose upon us, and lead us to conclude that the pulsative property proceeds along them from the heart For in several animals the arteries do not apparently differ from the veins; and in extreme parts of the body where the arteries are minutely subdivided, as in the brain, the hand, etc., no one could distinguish the arteries from the veins by the dissimilar characters of their coats: the tunics of both are identical.
The Harvard Classics Volume 38 Scientific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology) Various
she commented on the word pulsative
adj., played by percussion (as an instrument); able to throb or pulse (as a heart)
July 7, 2008