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Definition of Pulsific
1. a. Exciting the pulse; causing pulsation.
Definition of Pulsific
1. Adjective. Exciting the pulse; causing pulsation. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Pulsific
1. producing a single pulse [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pulsific
Literary usage of Pulsific
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. On the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals by William Harvey (1889)
"—that the pulsific power does not proceed from the heart by the coats of the
arteries, I beg here to refer to a portion of the descending aorta, ..."
2. Doctrines of the Circulation: A History of Physiological Opinion and by John Call Dalton (1884)
"But the arteries were themselves gifted with a pulsific force; and the most
important manifestation of this force was the active expansion of the vessel, ..."
3. The Growth of Medicine from the Earliest Times to about 1800 by Albert Henry Buck (1917)
"Galen taught that the arteries pulsated by reason of a "pulsific power" which
... As evidence of the non- existence of Galen's assumed "pulsific power," ..."
4. William Harvey by D'Arcy Power (1897)
"Desiring to set in a clear light "that the pulsific power does not proceed from
the heart by the coats of the vessels, I beg here to refer to a portion of ..."
5. Scientific Papers; Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology by William Harvey, Edward Jenner, Louis Pasteur, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sir Charles Lyell, Hippocrates, Ambroise Paré, Frank Faulkner, David Constable Robb, Harold Clarence Ernst, Joseph Lister, Stephen Paget, Robert Willis (1910)
"... whilst they dilate, are filled by that pulsific force, because they expand
like bellows, and do not dilate as if they are filled like skins, ..."
6. Scientific Papers; Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology by Hippocrates, Ambroise Paré, William Harvey, Edward Jenner, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Joseph Lister, Louis Pasteur, Charles Lyell, Stephen Paget, Robert Willis, Frank Faulkner, David Constable Robb, Harold Clarence Ernst (1910)
"... whilst they dilate, are filled by that pulsific force, because they expand
like bellows, and do not dilate as if they are filled like skins, ..."
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