pulsation

Pronunciation: /pʌlˈseɪʃn̩/

The English word “pulsation” has 5 meanings listed here.

noun

The regular throbbing of the heart, an artery etc. in a living body; the pulse.
Any rhythmic beating, throbbing etc.
The rhythmic increase and decrease of size in naked zoospores and plasmodia.
Physical striking; a blow.
A single beat, throb or vibration.

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English pulsacioun (“pulsing of the blood, throbbing”), borrowed from Middle French pulsacion (“(of bells) a striking (end of 14th c.); (of a diseased part of the body) a throbbing (1377); pulsation (1575)”), and its source, Latin pulsātiō (“(classical Latin) a beating or striking; (Medieval Latin, medical) rhythmical expansion and contraction (1363 in Chauliac)”). By…

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