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pulsatory, a.|ˈpʌlsətərɪ|
[f. pulsate: see -ory2.]
Having the quality of pulsating; characterized by or of the nature of pulsation; acting or moving in intermittent pulses.
1613Wotton Let. to Sir E. Bacon 27 May, in Reliq. (1672) 418 These external evils do not so much trouble us, as an inward pungent and pulsatory ach within the skull. 1747Langrish Muscular Motion iii. §129 in Phil. Trans. XLIV, Let us now..examine whether the nervous æther is transmitted from the Brain to the Heart, in a pulsatory Manner, at equal Distances of Time. 1822–34Good's Study Med. (ed. 4) I. 535 A pulsatory motion is always felt by the fingers when applied to a leaden water-pipe. 1878G. B. Prescott Sp. Telephone 206 A merely intermittent or pulsatory current.
b. = pulsatile 1.
1802Med. Jrnl. VIII. 4 A pulsatory swelling at the fore part of the elbow joint. 1868Duncan tr. Figuier's Insect World Introd. 12 Malpighi and Swamerdam..discovered in different insects a pulsatory organ occupying the median line of the back, which appeared to them to be a heart. |