pulsatile
C1CEFR level
65/100Rarity: rare
TechnicalRegister
Characterised by rhythmic pulsation synchronous with the heartbeat.
A pulsatile abdominal mass in an elderly smoker warrants exclusion of an aortic aneurysm.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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