Varieties of pulse, identified by special names

This includes a gazelle pulse, that is, one that beats unevenly in one part of the beat, when that part is slow, then breaks and then rushes. This also includes a wavy pulse - uneven in relation to the large and small size of parts of the vessels or in their rise and width and in the advance and lag at the beginning of the movement of the pulse if there is softness in it. It is not very small, has some width and resembles waves, following one after another in a row, varying in the degree of rise and fall, speed and slowness.

This also includes the worm-shaped pulse. It is similar to wave-like, but only very small and very frequent. Its frequency suggests the idea of ​​speed, whereas it is not fast at all. The ant's pulse is very small and even more frequent. The unevenness of the worm-shaped and ant pulse in relation to rise, advance and lag appears to the touch more clearly than the unevenness in relation to width; the latter may not even appear at all.

This also includes a sawtooth pulse. It is similar to the wavy one in terms of the unevenness of the parts in relation to the rise and width and in relation to the advance and lag, but it is only hard, and although there is hardness, its parts are not equal in hardness. The sawtooth pulse is fast, frequent, hard, its parts vary in size of expansion, hardness and softness.

This also includes the “mouse tail”. This is a pulse whose irregularity gradually changes, from decreasing to increasing or from increasing to decreasing.

Mouse tail is sometimes observed in many strokes, and is sometimes felt in several parts of one stroke or in one. The most characteristic unevenness for it is that associated with size, and sometimes it relates to speed and slowness, weakness and strength.

This also includes the spindle-shaped pulse. This is a pulse that goes from decreasing to some limit of increasing, then continually retreats back until it reaches the original limit of decreasing. It looks like two “mouse tails” that meet at both largest ends.

This also includes a two-beat pulse. Doctors disagree about this variety: some of them consider two beats to be one pulse beat, uneven in the ratio of leading and lagging, while others say that these are two beats following each other without interruption. But in general the time between them is not such as to accommodate the compression of the artery and then the expansion. Not every time two beats are felt, it has to be two beats; If this were so, then a pulse that breaks off during expansion and then returns would also be counted as two beats. Only a pulse should be counted as two pulse beats when the beat, starting, expands, then, contracting, returns to depth again and then expands further.

This also includes “pulse with interruptions” and “pulse falling in the middle” of the pulsation, which have already been mentioned. The difference between the “pulse falling in the middle” and the pulse of the “gazelle” is that with the pulse of the “gazelle” the second beat arrives before the end of the first, and with the “pulse falling in the middle” the second beat occurs during a pause, after the end of the first .

The same category includes a convulsive, trembling, vibrating pulse, which looks like a twisted and twisted thread. It falls into the category of irregularities in terms of lead and lag, position and width.

A tense, string-like pulse is a type of vibrating pulse. It is similar to trembling, but the expansion with a tense pulse is not so obvious, and also the disturbance in the evenness of the position when the artery rises is not so obvious with a tense pulse. As for the tension, it is more obvious with a tense pulse, and sometimes it is directed only in one direction. Cases of a tense, vibrating and “leaning to one side” pulse most often occur only in dry diseases. Other varieties of complex pulse are almost endless, and they have no names.