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Dicrotic

Dicrotic

(Science: physiology) Of or pertaining to dicrotism; as, a dicrotic pulse.

Of or pertaining to the second expansion of the artery in the dicrotic pulse; as, the dicrotic wave.

Origin: gr. = to knock, beat.


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