Usually means: Beats or accents in rhythm.
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  1. ictuses: Merriam-Webster
  2. ictuses: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. ictuses: Collins English Dictionary
  4. ictuses: Wiktionary
  5. ictuses: Dictionary.com
  6. ictuses: TheFreeDictionary.com

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. ictuses: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. ictuses: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (ictus)

noun:  The pulse.
noun:  (medicine) A sudden attack, blow, stroke, or seizure, as in a sunstroke, the sting of an insect, pulsation of an artery, etc.
noun:  (prosody) The stress of voice laid upon an accented syllable of a word. Compare arsis.
noun:  (music) In conducting, the indication of a musical event, most often the beat of the tempo or the entry of a section of the orchestra.
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