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PREDICROTIC

\pɹɪdɪkɹˈɒtɪk], \pɹɪdɪkɹˈɒtɪk], \p_ɹ_ɪ_d_ɪ_k_ɹ_ˈɒ_t_ɪ_k]\

Definitions of PREDICROTIC

2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
1920 - A practical medical dictionary.
1898 - American pocket medical dictionary

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A term applied to the pulse wave sometimes seen in a pulse curve or sphygmogram, between the apex of the curve and the dicrotic wave.

2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
By Oddity Software

Noting an interruption in the sphygmographic tracing preceding the dicrotic notch.

1920 - A practical medical dictionary.
By Stedman, Thomas Lathrop

Occurring before the dicrotic wave of the sphygmogram.

1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland

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