Kussmaul disease pulse etc.

Kussmaul disease pulse etc.
Kuss·maul disease, pulse, etc. (koosґmoul) [Adolf Kussmaul, German physician, 1822–1902] see polyarteritis nodosa; see paradoxical pulse, under pulse, and diabetic coma, under coma; and see under respiration and sign.

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