- catadicrotic pulse
- a pulse in which the descending limb of the tracing has a notch between two small additional waveforms.
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catadicrotic pulse
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catadicrotic wave — the wave of a tracing of a catadicrotic pulse … Medical dictionary
Pulse — The rhythmic dilation of an artery resulting from beating of the heart. It is often measured by feeling the arteries of the wrist. * * * Rhythmic dilation of an artery, produced by the increased volume of blood thrown into the vessel by the… … Medical dictionary
catadicrotic — Denoting a pulse tracing in which there are two minor elevations interrupting the downstroke. * * * cata·di·crot·ic (kat″ə di krotґik) on a pulse tracing, having two waveforms on the descending limb; see under pulse … Medical dictionary
dicrotic pulse — a pulse whose tracing has two peaks instead of the usual one, the second one coming during diastole as an exaggeration of the dicrotic wave. See also anacrotic p. and catadicrotic p … Medical dictionary
pulsus — SYN: pulse. [L. a stroke, pulse] p. abdominalis SYN: abdominal pulse. p. alternans SYN: alternating pulse. p. anadicrotus SYN: anacrotic pulse. p. bigeminus SYN: bigeminal pulse. p. bisferiens SYN: bisferious pulse. p. caprisans a bounding… … Medical dictionary
catadicrotism — A condition of the pulse marked by two minor expansions of the artery following the main beat, producing two secondary upward waves on the downstroke of the pulse tracing. [cata + G. di , two, + krotos, beat] * * * cata·di·cro·tism… … Medical dictionary
dicrotic — Relating to dicrotism. [G. dikrotos, double beating] * * * di·crot·ic ( )dī krät ik adj 1) of the pulse having a double beat (as in certain febrile states in which the heart is overactive and the arterial walls are lacking in tone) compare… … Medical dictionary
