monocrotism
nounEtymology From mono- + Ancient Greek κρότος (krótos, “a rattling, beating”) + -ism.
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Medicine, Physiology, Sciences A condition in which the pulse curve or sphygmogram shows only a single crest, the dicrotic elevation entirely disappearing.
- Derived terms
- monocrotic
- Coordinate terms
- dicrotism, tricrotism, polycrotism