sphygmology

1. (medicine, usually historical) The study of the pulse.Examples: "Sphygmology only developed in the Alexandrian period, a couple of centuries after Hippocrates."; "Tactile Sphygmology, probably the most ancient among the branches of medical science, is now far behind some of its younger sisters."; "Also, although sphygmology, or pulse lore, is absent from the Āyurvedic classics, it was well developed in Yunānī medicine, and became the symbol of an Āyurvedic physician's skill. The reputation of sphygmology was such that by the nineteenth and twentieth centuries it had become more a technique of divination than a rational diagnostic method."Synonyms: pulsologyhistoricaluncountableusually