What does pur. mean?
Pur. means Dated form of purr (“low murmuring sound as of a cat”)..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
Dated form of purr (“low murmuring sound as of a cat”)..
The first — called by Laennec, from its resemblance to the pur of a cat, the purring tremor — is nearly always indicative of a valvular lesion. The second is caused by the to-and-fro motion of a roughened pericardium.
a. 1828, John Gardiner Calkins Brainard, On Connecticut River And there the wild-cat purs amid her brood.
It appears to me, past all doubt, that its [the goatsucker's] notes are formed by organic impulse, by the parts of its windpipe formed for sound, just as cats pur.
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Pur. means Dated form of purr (“low murmuring sound as of a cat”)..
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The first — called by Laennec, from its resemblance to the pur of a cat, the purring tremor — is nearly always indicative of a valvular lesion. The second is caused by the to-and-fro motion of a roughened pericardium.
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