Catacrotism

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Catacrotic \Cat`a*crot"ic\, a. [Cata- + Gr. ? a beating.]
     (Physiol.)
     Designating, pertaining to, or characterized by, that form of
     pulse tracing, or sphygmogram, in which the descending
     portion of the curve is marked by secondary elevations due to
     two or more expansions of the artery in the same beat. --


     {Ca*tac"rotism}, n.
     [Webster 1913 Suppl.]