Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Having rhythmical vibration or movement.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Same as
pulsatile .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Capable of pulsating; throbbing.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Consisting of
pulses ;rhythmic
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Examples
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On this account, whatever might have been the cause of the earthquake, whether volcanic or electrical, the movement assumed every possible direction -- vertical, horizontal, oscillatory, vorticose, and pulsatory; producing every variety of destruction.
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Eating, Walking, -- all our most elementary movements are pulsatory.
Essays Towards a Theory of Knowledge Alexander Philip
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The microphonic currents are intermittent or pulsatory, and always flow in the same direction.
Scientific American Supplement No. 822, October 3, 1891 Various
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The extrinsic or transmitted movements of the esophagus are respiratory and pulsatory, and to a slight extent, bechic.
Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery Chevalier Jackson 1911
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-- Having mastered the technic of introduction on the cadaver and trained the eye and fingers by practice work on the rubber tube, experience should be had in the living lower air and food passages with their pulsatory, respiratory, bechic and deglutitory movements, and ever-present secretions.
Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery Chevalier Jackson 1911
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The normal movements of the trachea and bronchi are respiratory, pulsatory, bechic, and deglutitory.
Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery Chevalier Jackson 1911
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It is manifested by such signs as subcutaneous emphysema, swelling of the neck, fever, irritability, increase in pulsatory and respiratory rates, and pain in the neck or chest.
Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery Chevalier Jackson 1911
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The normal pulsatory movements are due to the pulsatile pressure of the aorta, found at the 4th thoracic vertebra
Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery Chevalier Jackson 1911
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He was a third-generation specialist in the nature of speech, and he knew that for the transmission of spoken words there must be ` ` a pulsatory action of the electric current which is the exact equivalent of the aerial impulses. ''
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He was a third-generation specialist in the nature of speech, and he knew that for the transmission of spoken words there must be "a pulsatory action of the electric current which is the exact equivalent of the aerial impulses."
The History of the Telephone Herbert Newton Casson 1910
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