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dicrotism

  • a word derived from dicrotic.
    dicrotic
    adjective
    having or pertaining to a double beat of the pulse for each beat of the heart.

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This condition is gradually replaced by an opposite state, the pulse becoming large, soft, and bounding, though very unresisting, and giving a sphygmographic trace which exhibits marked dicrotism.

From Neuralgia and the Diseases that Resemble it by Francis E. Anstie

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