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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Pre·di·crot·ic a. Physiol. A term applied to the pulse wave sometimes seen in a pulse curve or sphygmogram, between the apex of the curve and the dicrotic wave.
    The predicrotic or tidal wave is best marked in a hard pulse, =\i. e., where the blood pressure is high.\=   --Landois & Stirling.