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- Pulsation - n. - A beating or throbbing, especially of the heart or of an artery, or in an inflamed part; a beat of the pulse.
- Pulsation - n. - A single beat or throb of a series.
- Pulsation - n. - A stroke or impulse by which some medium is affected, as in the propagation of sounds.
- Pulsation - n. - Any touching of another's body willfully or in anger. This constitutes battery.
- Ictus - n. - A stroke or blow, as in a sunstroke, the sting of an insect, pulsation of an artery, etc.
- Undulation - n. - The pulsation caused by the vibrating together of two tones not quite in unison; -- called also beat.
- Beat - n. - A sudden swelling or reenforcement of a sound, recurring at regular intervals, and produced by the interference of sound waves of slightly different periods of vibrations; applied also, by analogy, to other kinds of wave motions; the pulsation or throbbing produced by the vibrating together of two tones not quite in unison. See Beat, v. i., 8.
- Trance - n. - A condition, often simulating death, in which there is a total suspension of the power of voluntary movement, with abolition of all evidences of mental activity and the reduction to a minimum of all the vital functions so that the patient lies still and apparently unconscious of surrounding objects, while the pulsation of the heart and the breathing, although still present, are almost or altogether imperceptible.
- Beat - v. i. - To move with pulsation or throbbing.
- Ecstasy - n. - A state which consists in total suspension of sensibility, of voluntary motion, and largely of mental power. The body is erect and inflexible; the pulsation and breathing are not affected.