| 释义 |
pulseless, a.|ˈpʌlslɪs|
[f. as prec. + -less.]
1. Having or exhibiting no pulse or pulsation, as a body in which the heart has ceased to beat.
1748Richardson Clarissa (1810) VIII. xxiii. 100 While warm, though pulseless, we pressed each her hand with our lips. 1822Shelley Hellas 142 His cold pale limbs and pulseless arteries. 1875Bedford Sailor's Pocket Bk. viii. (ed. 2) 302 In shock the injured person lies pale, faint,..almost pulseless.
2. fig. and gen. Devoid of life, energy, or movement; void of feeling, unfeeling, pitiless (quot. 1856); motionless; lifeless.
1856Aytoun Bothwell ii. ix, There he stood, the pulseless man, The calculating lord. 1861E. S. Kennedy in Peaks, Passes, etc., Ser. ii. I. 170 So often as she came, so often there floated on the pulseless air the gentle moan ‘Mort Aratsch’. 1873W. S. Mayo Never Again xxxii, Better than Joys of pale and pulseless Life, The agony of Strife.
Hence ˈpulselessness.
1853Dunglison Med. Lex., Pulselessness, asphyxia. 1889Sat. Rev. 20 July 85/2 [He] points out the difference between the meanings of the terms asphyxia and apnoea, the former standing for pulselessness and the latter for breathlessness. |