Meaning of caprizant | Babel Free

Definitions

Having irregular, leaping beats.

obsolete, rare

Equivalents

Examples

“The caprizant Pulse is to be perceived in the upper or lower Part, but hardly at all in the Middle, from an Aneurism, Tumor, &c.”

“T. Dia. Dico that the pulse of this gentleman is the pulse of a man who is not well. Mr. Dia. Good. T. Dia. That it is duriusculus, not to say⟳ durus. Mr. Dia. Very well. T. Dia. Irregular. Mr. Dia. Bene. T. Dia. And even a little caprizant.”

“Nay, in Dicrot, Caprizant, and other inordinate pulses, diverse pulses strike⟳ in lesse space than the open⟳ mouth of an artery can open⟳, shut⟳, and open⟳ again, which acts are requisite to the beginning of a second pulse.”

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