With this condition, the pulse is hard and incompressible, and the line of ascent in the sphygmographic tracing (Fig.
In the sphygmographic tracing, the line of ascent is less abrupt than in the normal tracing (Fig.
Defn: Relating to, or produced by, a sphygmograph; as, a sphygmographic tracing.
The pulse curve obtained in the sphygmographic tracing characteristic of tricrotism shows two secondary crests in addition to the primary.
Indeed, the latter test is in all cases far less reliable than the sphygmographic trace, except when the arterial change has proceeded to a very marked degree of development.
This condition is gradually replaced by an opposite state, the pulse becoming large, soft, and bounding, though very unresisting, and giving a sphygmographic trace which exhibits marked dicrotism.
At the commencement of the painful paroxysm, sphygmographic observation shows that the arterial tension is much increased, owing, in all probability, to spasm of the small vessels.
Voisin in the case of a sham epileptic in Paris, ``whose sphygmographic lines have no resemblance to those of true epileptics before and after a fit, and only resemble those produced by normal persons after a violent gesticulation.
I herewith attach thesphygmographic tracings made upon myself by another, showing the state of the pulse as compared with the progress of the respiration.
Sphygmographic tracings of the pulse of the essayist.
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