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Definition: PULSATILE |
PULSATILEAdjective1. Pulsating; throbbing, as a tumor. 2. Capable of being struck or beaten; played by beating or by percussion; as, a tambourine is a pulsatile musical instrument. |
Etymology: Pulsatile \Pul"sa*tile\, adjective. [Compare to Italian pulsatile, Spanish pulsatil.]. (Websters 1913) |
"PULSATILE" is a common misspelling or typo for: palatable, palatal, palatial, palatine, pastille, platelet, pulsate, pustule. |
Crosswords: PULSATILE |
| Specialty definitions using "PULSATILE": Pulsatile Flow. (references) |
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Health | The observations at endoscopy should then determine whether endoscopic hemostatic therapy should be carried out. There is consensus that the findings of pulsatile bleeding ("spurting") or oozing from the ulcer are indications for treatment. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
Expressions using "PULSATILE": Pulsatile Flow ♦ pulsatile instrument. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "PULSATILE": non-pulsatile. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
pulsatile tinnitus | 34 |
pulsatile lavage | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "PULSATILE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | نابض (graphic, graphical, impulsive, palpitant, pulsatory, pulsing, spring, thrilling), نبض (beat, pant, pulsate, pulsation, pulse, stroke, throb). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | ударен (percussive, shock, striking, strong), пулсиращ (intermittent, palpitating, pulsatory, systaltic). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 脉搏. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | pulserende haematom (pulsatile haematoma), pulsafhængigt flow (pulsatile flow). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | pulserend hematoom (pulsatile haematoma), pulsatiele stroming (pulsatile flow). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | aivo-selkäydinnesteen sykkivä virtaus (pulsatile flow), aivo-selkäydinnesteen pulsoiva virtaus (pulsatile flow). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | pulsatif (pulsator, pulsatory, pulsing). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Strompuls (pulsatile flow), Hämatoma pulsans (pulsatile haematoma), Hämatoma arteriale (pulsatile haematoma). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | σφύζον αιμάτωμα (pulsatile haematoma), παλμική ροή (pulsatile flow). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | lüktetõ (intermittent, pulsatory, pulsing). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | flusso pulsatile (pulsatile flow), ematoma pulsatile (pulsatile haematoma), ematoma arterioso (pulsatile haematoma). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ulsatilepay pulsátil, tocado por percussão, que pulsa, latejante. (various references) pulsând, care pulseazã. (various references) ударный (percussional, percussive, striking). (various references) koji treperi. (various references) pulsátil (pulsatory). (various references) pulserande (pulsating, pulsation, pulsatory, vibrant). (various references) vurmalı (percussion, percussive). (various references) ударний (percussive, striking), пульсуючий (palpitating, pulsating, pulsative, pulsatory). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Words rhyming with "PULSATILE" (pronounced 'Pul"sa*tile'): Aquatile, Bipartile, Biquintile, Coctile, Cortile, Fertile, fictile, Fluviatile, futile, infantile, infertile, inutile, mercantile, Octile, Oversubtile, Pantile, Pentile, Plectile, Pontile, Productile, Quartile, Quintile, saxatile, Sculptile, Sectile, Semiquintile, Semisextile, Subtile, Sutile, turnstile, Umbratile, unfertile, Untile, utile, Versatile, Vibratile. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-i-l-l-p-s-t-u" | |
-1 letter: palliest, pastille. | |
-2 letters: aplites, paliest, pallets, pilules, platies, pullets, pulsate, stipule, tailles, talipes, tallies, tuilles. | |
-3 letters: allies, aplite, espial, illest, lapels, letups, lipase, listel, luteal, palest, palets, pallet, pastel, pastie, pastil, petals, petsai, pietas, pilaus, pileus, pilule, plaits, plates, pleats, plutei, pullet, sallet, saltie, salute, septal, spital, staple, stelai, stella, stipel, taille, tallis. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-i-l-l-p-s-t-u" | |
+2 letters: painfullest, pluralities, ultrasimple. | |
+3 letters: cupellations. | |
+4 letters: culpabilities, multispectral, speculatively, superlatively, superloyalist. | |
+5 letters: euphuistically, plausibilities, pleasurability, superloyalists. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Quotations: Non-fiction | 5. Expressions 6. Expressions: Internet 7. Translations: Modern 8. Rhymes | 9. Anagrams 10. Bibliography |
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