pulse wave. Etymology: L, pulsare, to beat; AS, wafian. a transient increase in blood pressure that spreads like a wave through the arterial system. It begins with the ejection of blood by the ventricles during systole.n electromyographic tracing associated with denervation and some types of primary muscle disease. pulse wave. the elevation of the pulse felt by the finger or shown graphically in a recording of pulse pressure.
It's the Venezuelan jungle in the 1960s. Chagnon is a young anthropologist. The green forest parts and a small, powerfully built man emerges, naked and proud. He has a glint in his eye, a light you don't see in other people, Chagnon continues. He is defiant, arrogant, king of the world.
Savignon describes a language function as âthe use to which language is put, the purpose of an utterance rather than the particular grammatical form an utterance takesâ (Savignon, 1983). By using this idea to structure teaching, the instructional focus becomes less about form and more about the meaning of an utterance.f we think about a function of language as one that serves a purpose we can see that much of what we see can be considered to be functional. Let's take the example of going to a dinner party. Arriving at the dinner party we may introduce ourselves, thank the host and ask where to put our coats.