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Definition of Fluctuant
1. a. Moving like a wave; wavering
Definition of Fluctuant
1. Adjective. That fluctuates, or causes fluctuation ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Fluctuant
1. [adj]
Medical Definition of Fluctuant
1. A wave like motion that is felt when a fluid containing structure is palpated. (27 Sep 1997)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fluctuant
Literary usage of Fluctuant
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An exposition of the Creed by John Pearson (1843)
"Such is the fluctuant condition of human generation, and of those relations which
arise from thence, that he which is this day a son, the next may prove a ..."
2. The Practitioner by Gale Group, ProQuest Information and Learning Company (1905)
"This patient presented herself with a round, tense, fluctuant swelling in the
upper quadrant ... It was distinctly fluctuant, freely movable, and painless. ..."
3. Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal (1843)
"They are globular, and, with the exception of this last, of an equal surface;
elastic, distended or full, fluctuant, not permitting light to pass through ..."
4. Differential diagnosis by Richard Clarke Cabot (1912)
"The swelling is brawny, with a slightly fluctuant crater in the center. ...
Either of these lesions, if fluctuant, would be fluctuant throughout. ..."
5. Practical Uranalysis and Urinary Diagnosis: A Manual for the Use of by Charles Wesley Purdy (1901)
"In hydronephrosis the tumor is evenly and distinctly fluctuant, ... In cystic
disease the tumor is bilateral, non-fluctuant, preserves the form of the ..."
6. The Cambridge and Dublin Mathematical Journal by Duncan Farquharson Gregory, Robert Leslie Ellis, William Thomson Kelvin, Norman Macleod Ferrers (1853)
"... and •J± TP its fluctuant : also G the fluctuant of E, H its Companion ; T the
First Integral of the Second Order, Vita fluctuant, and W the Companion of ..."
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