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pulsus respiratione intermittens (medicine) and gamma loop (medicine)


pulsus respiratione intermittens (medicine)


pulsus respiratione intermittens -->
paradoxical pulse


An exaggeration of the normal variation in the pulse volume with respiration, becoming weaker with inspiration and stronger with expiration; characteristic of cardiac tamponade, rare in constrictive pericarditis; so called because these changes are independent of changes in the cardiac rate as measured directly or by electrocardiogram.

Synonym: pulsus paradoxus, pulsus respiratione intermittens.


gamma loop (medicine)


gamma loop


The reflex arc consisting of small anterior horn cells and neuroma, their small fibres projecting to the intrafusal bundle producing its contraction, which initiates the afferent impulses that pass through the posterior root to the anterior horn cells, inducing a stretch reflex.

Synonym: gamma motor neurons, gamma motor system, Granit's loop.