femoral pulse
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- noun
- /ˈfɛmərəl pʌls/
- Specialized
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pulso femoral
Examples
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Good femoral pulse.
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After 5 cycles of cardiopulmonary resuscitation, a femoral pulse was palpable.
Academic text (2007) -
The doctor checked for a femoral pulse in the patient's groin to assess circulation.
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After conducting the examination, the nurse noted a strong femoral pulse on both sides.
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During the emergency response, they found a weak femoral pulse, indicating possible shock.
Surface Forms
Morphology
The term is a straightforward composition of 'femoral' (relating to the femur/thigh region) and 'pulse' (the heartbeat-throbbing felt at a body site), so its meaning — the pulse felt in the femoral/thigh/groin area — is directly derivable from the parts. Although medical, the adjective+noun structure is regular and the concept (pulse at a specific artery) is cross-linguistically common, so a learner who knows both constituents will comprehend it.
Etymology
The term femoral pulse comes from the parts femoral and pulse: femoral comes from a word for 'thigh' and pulse means the beat of the blood. So the femoral pulse is the beat you feel in the groin where the main artery goes into the leg, and doctors check it to see the leg's blood flow.