Predicrotic: alternatives and connections

An isolated point not upon a curve, but whose coordinates satisfy the equation of the curve so that it is considered as belonging to t…

A secondary notch in the pulse curve, obtained in a sphygmographic tracing.

The tip, top, point, or angular summit of anything; as, the apex of a mountain, spire, or cone; the apex, or tip, of a leaf.

Capable of being seen, or easily seen; open to view; visible to the eye; within sight or view.

The vertex or top of an arch; -- applied generally to about one third of the curve, but in a pointed arch to the apex only.

To bend; to crook; as, to curve a line; to curve a pipe; to cause to swerve from a straight course; as, to curve a ball in pitching it.

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

Dicrotic.

Sometimes a curve, or surface, or volume is considered as described by a moving point, or curve, or surface, the latter being at any i…

A curve from which another curve, called the involute or evolvent, is described by the end of a thread gradually wound upon the former…

To move as a wave; to roll hither and thither; to wave; to float backward and forward, as on waves; as, a fluctuating field of air.

Having reference to the earth as center; in relation to or seen from the earth, -- usually opposed to heliocentric, as seen from the s…

The locus described by any point attached to a curve that slips continuously on another fixed curve, the movable curve having no rotat…

The obtaining of a curve similar to a pulse curve or sphygmogram by allowing the blood from a divided artery to strike against a piece…

A curve formed by a section of a cone, when the cutting plane makes a greater angle with the base than the side of the cone makes. It…

Excessive dicrotic; as, a hyperdicrotic pulse.

Exhibiting retarded dicrotism; as, a hypodicrotic pulse curve.

Pertaining to pulse; consisting of pulse.