caprizant

comparative more caprizant · superlative most caprizant

1. obsoleteraremedicineHaving irregular, leaping beats.

   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.

   1757, Herman Boerhaave, Dr. Boerhaave's Academical Lectures on the Theory of Physic

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   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.

   1879, Molière [pseudonym; Jean-Baptiste Poquelin], translated by Charles Heron Wall, The Dramatic Works of Molière: Tr. Into English Prose

   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.

   1896, William Selby Church, The Rise of Physiology in England: The Harveian Oration Delivered Before the Royal College of Physicians, page 66