| 单词 | sphygmic |
| 释义 | sphygmic in British English (ˈsfɪɡmɪk) adjective physiology of or relating to the pulse sphygmic in American English (ˈsfɪgmɪk) adjective Physiology of the pulse Word origin ModL sphygmicus < Gr sphygmikos < sphygmos, the pulse < sphyzein, to throbsphygmic in American English (ˈsfɪɡmɪk) adjective Physiology & Medicine of or pertaining to the pulse Word origin [1700–10; ‹ Gk sphygmikós, equiv. to sphygm(ós) sphygmus + -ikos -ic]This word is first recorded in the period 1700–10. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: camera, emphatic, envelope, hump, sliding scale-ic is a suffix forming adjectives from other parts of speech, occurring originally inGreek and Latin loanwords (metallic; poetic; archaic; public) and, on this model, used as an adjective-forming suffix with the particular senses“having some characteristics of” (opposed to the simple attributive use of the basenoun) (balletic; sophomoric); “in the style of” (Byronic; Miltonic); “pertaining to a family of peoples or languages” (Finnic; Semitic; Turkic) |
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