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Dicrotic

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di·cro·tism  (dkr-tzm)
n.
A condition in which the pulse is felt as two beats per single heartbeat.
[From Greek dikrotos, double-beating : di-, two; see di-1 + krotos, rattling noise.]
di·crotic (-krtk) adj.
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