full p

A p. in which the artery has a distended, tense feeling; observed in sthenic inflammation, gaseous p., hemorrhagic p. The full, soft, and readily compre ible p. of a distended artery which has lost its tone, hard p. A p. in which, owing to changes in the arterial wall or to vascular distention, a sensation of hardne is imparted to the finger, hepatic p. An expansion sometimes observed in the veins of the liver at each ventricular contraction, due to an impulse propagated from the heart back along the vena cava inferior, incident p. A p. in which the second beat is weaker than the first, and the third than the fourth, a stroke then following which is as strong as the first.