tricrotism
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
English[edit]
Noun[edit]
tricrotism (uncountable)
- (biology) The condition of the arterial pulse in which there is a triple beat, so that the pulse curve obtained in a sphygmographic tracing shows two secondary crests in addition to the primary one.
Derived terms[edit]
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “tricrotism”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)