Definition of Radial pulse

1. Noun. Pulse of the radial artery (felt in the wrist).

Generic synonyms: Heart Rate, Pulse, Pulse Rate

Medical Definition of Radial pulse

1. The pulse as appreciated at the radial artery usually in the wrist. (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Radial Pulse

radial engines
radial flexor muscle of wrist
radial fossa of humerus
radial gate
radial glial cell
radial growth phase
radial head
radial head subluxation
radial immunodiffusion
radial index artery
radial keratotomy
radial nerve
radial notch
radial phenomenon
radial ponderomotive force stabilisation
radial pulse (current term)
radial recurrent artery
radial reflex
radial saw
radial scar
radial sclerosing lesion
radial shield
radial spoke
radial styloid tendovaginitis
radial symmetries
radial symmetry
radial tire
radial tires
radial tuberosity
radial tyre

Literary usage of Radial pulse

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1908)
"3 there are five waves corresponding to one radial pulse. The interpretation of the venous pulse offers great difficulties, since the normal waves of the ..."

2. A Treatise on Human Physiology by John Call Dalton (1875)
"The following are three traces of the radial pulse obtained in this way, ... VARIATIONS OK THI radial pulse, under the influence of increased temperature. ..."

3. Edinburgh Medical Journal (1898)
"The appearance of the radial pulse occurs at an interval exactly corresponding to the interval between the radial pulse and the apex beat in Fig 2. ..."

4. Surgery, Gynecology & Obstetrics by The American College of Surgeons, Franklin H. Martin Memorial Foundation (1912)
"Feeble radial pulse before and after. Recovery. Comptes Rendus du xii. Cong. ... radial pulse did not return till the next day. Recovery. ..."

5. Medical diagnosis: A Manual of Clinical Methods by John James Graham Brown (1884)
"The radial pulse is, in health, equal on the two sides; but abnormal distribution, compression, or other pathological condition may so act as to make one ..."

6. The London Medical Gazette (1850)
"... the blood will be propelled into the aorta with increased force, and the radial pulse will be strong and hard : its velocity will not, however, ..."

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