dicrotic
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Etymology
Origin of dicrotic
1700–10; < Greek díkrot ( os ) double beating ( di- di- 1 + krótos a clapping, rattling noise) + -ic
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As ventricular pressure drops, there is a tendency for blood to flow back into the atria from the major arteries, producing the dicrotic notch in the ECG and closing the two semilunar valves.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 19, 2013
During the crisis, and for a day or two thereafter, the pulse may be weak, compressible, and dicrotic, and occasionally irregular.
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various
We may have a dicrotic, or double, pulse; a thready pulse, which is extremely small and scarcely perceptible; the venous, or jugular, pulse; the "running down" pulse, and so on.
From Special Report on Diseases of Cattle by United States. Bureau of Animal Industry
The general form of a low tension pulse is a sharp upstroke, a pointed summit, and a secondary wave on the base line, which corresponds to the dicrotic wave.
From Arteriosclerosis and Hypertension: with Chapters on Blood Pressure, 3rd Edition. by Louis Marshall Warfield
The second upward rise in the decline is called the recoil, or the dicrotic wave, and is due to the sudden closure of the aortic valves and the recoil of the blood wave.
From Disturbances of the Heart by Oliver T. (Oliver Thomas) Osborne
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