Medicine. Of the pulse, respiration, etc.: having a rate that is lower than normal.

Of movement, activity, or something moving or active: having considerable force. Of the pulse: easily palpable, full; (also) difficult to compress (=…

Of the heart, an artery, etc.: that beats or pulsates, esp. with more than usual force or rapidity as a result of strong emotion or excitement…

= systematic, adj. 1. Obsolete.

Medicine. Of the pulse: palpable over a relatively long length of an artery; (also) having a prolonged duration of the beat (phase of arterial…

Of the pulse: healthy, regular. Obsolete. rare.

Of the pulse: Having beats of unequal strength. Obsolete.

Of the pulse: = vermicular, adj. 1b. Obsolete. rare.

Of the pulse: High, rapid.

Of the pulse: Beating strongly. poetic.

Of a pulse: Undulating.

That flutters, in various senses of the verb.

Eager, impetuous, violent. Of the pulse.

Medicine. Of the pulse, liver, etc.

Of the pulse or a sphygmographic tracing: Having or showing three undulations for each beat of the heart. tricrotic wave, the third of such…

= main sense.

Of the pulse.

Of breath, breathing: Coming in hurried gasps, impeded. Of a cough: Abrupt, checked; recurring abruptly at frequent intervals, dry, fast. Of a…

Medicine. Designating or relating to any form of cardiac arrhythmia in which heartbeats (normal or abnormal) occur in groups of four.

Of the nature of or relating to a plateau; spec. (Medicine) (of the pulse) having an abnormally prolonged period of constant blood pressure, esp…