body of the sphenoid bone

pulse.] Preceding the pulse beat; noting a brief interval following the filling of the ventricles with blood before the contraction of their walls forces open the semilunar valves. ing increased blood-pre ure, noting afferent nerve-iibers which, when stimulated, excite the vasoconstrictor center, p. base, one of several products of intestinal putrefaction probably derived from leucine, tyrosine, and choline, which are found in normal urine, and which cause a rise of blood-pre ure when injected into animals the retention of these in the body is supposed to be a common cause of high blood-pre ure. p. sub's tance, p. base. against resistance, blood p., see under blood, osmot'ic p., see under osmotic, p. palsy, paralysis due to pre ure on a nerve-trunk or on the spinal cord. p. point, see point, pulse p., see under pulse. Four springs. Used by drinking and bathing in chronic catarrh of the urinary organs, uric acid gravel, nephritis, nephralgia, respiratory affections, and rheumatism. The entire year. brium stem i.