thready pulse

[ thrĕd′ē ]

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A small fine pulse that feels like a small cord or thread under the finger.

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Add the water mixture all at once and pulse until the mixture just comes together.
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“There was still no pulse, not even the smallest bit,” Johnson says.
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The cop lay open-eyed with a grievous head wound as Johnson again checked for a pulse.
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The pulse of the music gives the film a thrilling kind of unity.
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However, in calm, deep wave sleep, breathing and pulse is slow and regular, and movements are more than rare, he says.
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The pulse in Louis's temples beat hard; yet he was determined not to anticipate, but make Wharton explain himself.
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Her pulse was beneath his fingers, and with every stroke of it he felt more keenly the mystery and cruelty of life.
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But he thought of the inexorable beating of that pulse of life—of life, and the will to live as her philosophy desired.
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It is merely occupied with the number of times the pulse beats per minute in different positions of the body.
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His pulse rate was now in the neighborhood of ten per second, which is a pretty good increase.
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