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pulse
(redirected from peripheral pulse)

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32) Fifty nine of the 68 patients with an infection and only 16 of the 44 patients without infection had PAD, when defined as the absence of a peripheral pulse, yielding an odds ratio of 11.
[23] Occlusion at this junction may produce muscle weakness, numbness, paresthesia, paralysis, cold and pale legs with decreased or absent peripheral pulses, and intermittent claudication of the lower back, gluteal muscles, quadriceps femoris muscle, or calves.
I checked his peripheral pulse, in his wrist, and it was normal.
 
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