pulse rate
noun Medicine/Medical.
the rate of the pulse: stated in pulsations per minute.
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Origin of pulse rate
First recorded in 1875–80
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Example sentences from the Web for pulse rate
With a diurnal temperature successively less elevated above the normal standard there is a corresponding fall of the pulse-rate.
A mild febrile disturbance causing a rise of temperature to little more than 100 F. will send the pulse-rate up 30 beats.
Scurvy Past and Present|Alfred Fabian HessThe pulse-rate of early infancy varies from 100 to 120, and is very easily hurried.
Medical definitions for pulse rate
pulse rate
n.
The rate of the pulse as observed in an artery, expressed as beats per minute.
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