pulse
要点脈はく
意味
- 《通例単数形で》脈はく
- (一般に,規則的な)鼓動,律動
- (電気の)パルス
- (一般的な)傾向
- 脈を打つ,鼓動する
- 《時に複数扱い》(食用の)豆類
- 《通例複数形で》豆のとれる植物
例文
The doctor thought the patient's pulse was rather rapid.
医者はその患者の脈は少し速いと思った。
Your pulse is a little fast.
脈拍が少し速いね。
The doctor took his pulse.
医者は彼の脈をとった。
語源
ラテン語pulsus「打つこと」から（pellere「打つ・押す」）。規則正しく打つもの「脈はく」。
push、impulseと同じ仲間。
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
From Late Middle English pulse, Middle English pous, pouse (“regular beat of arteries, pulse; heartbeat; place on the body where a pulse is detectable; beat (of a musical instrument); energy, vitality”) [and other forms], from Anglo-Norman puls, pous, pus, and Middle French pouls, poulz, pous [and other forms], Old French pous, pulz (“regular beat of arteries; place on the body where a pulse is detectable”) (modern French pouls), and from their etymon Latin pulsus (“beat, impulse, pulse, stroke; regular beat of arteries or the heart”), from pellō (“to drive, impel, propel, push; to banish, eject, expel; to set in motion; to strike”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pel- (“to beat, strik…