Definify.com

Webster 1913 Edition

Dicrotic

Di-crot′ic

,

Adj.

[Gr. [GREEK] = [GREEK] to knock, beat.]

(Physiol.)

(a)

Of or pertaining to dicrotism;

as, a

dicrotic

pulse

.

(b)

Of or pertaining to the second expansion of the artery in the dicrotic pulse;

as, the

dicrotic

wave

.