pulsation
/pəlˈseɪʃən/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.23 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The regular throbbing of the heart, an artery etc. in a living body; the pulse.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "Pulsation had ceased. For three days the body was preserved unburied, during which it had acquired a stony rigidity."
- "Lo! as a dove when up she springs To bear thro’ Heaven a tale of woe, Some dolorous message knit below The wild pulsation of her wings; Like her I go; I cannot stay; I leave this mortal ark behind […]"
- "By the Cornelian law, pulsation as well as verberation is prohibited."
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 surface analysis, pulsate + -ion.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: pulsacioun, pulsacion, pulsātiō
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /pəlˈseɪʃən/
- British English: /pʌlˈseɪʃn̩/