pulsative
Americanadjective
Other Word Forms
- nonpulsative adjective
- pulsatively adverb
- unpulsative adjective
Etymology
Origin of pulsative
Example Sentences
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The arteries, Galen thought, possessed a pulsative and attractive power of their own, independently of the heart, the moment of their dilatation being the moment of their activity.
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It is by means, and only by means, of periodic pulsative movements that we ever do or can measure Time.
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By means of apparatus specially devised, pulsative plants were made to record their rhythmic throbbings.
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And twain of that side are called Pulsative, of which one that is the innermost hath a nesh skin, and this vein is needful to bring great quantity of blood and spirits to the lungs, and to receive in air, and to medley it with blood, to temper the ferventness of the blood.
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Do not let the thickness of the arterial tunics impose upon us, and lead us to conclude that the pulsative property proceeds along them from the heart For in several animals the arteries do not apparently differ from the veins; and in extreme parts of the body where the arteries are minutely subdivided, as in the brain, the hand, etc., no one could distinguish the arteries from the veins by the dissimilar characters of their coats: the tunics of both are identical.
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