Definitions for Pulses
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1. pulses

   In medicine, a pulse represents the tactile arterial palpation of the cardiac cycle (heartbeat) by trained fingertips. The pulse may be palpated in any place that allows an artery to be compressed near the surface of the body, such as at the neck (carotid artery), wrist (radial artery), at the groin (femoral artery), behind the knee (popliteal artery), near the ankle joint (posterior tibial artery), and on foot (dorsalis pedis artery). Pulse (or the count of arterial pulse per minute) is equivalent to measuring the heart rate. The heart rate can also be measured by listening to the heart beat by auscultation, traditionally using a stethoscope and counting it for a minute. The radial pulse is commonly measured using three fingers. This has a reason: the finger closest to the heart is used to occlude the pulse pressure, the middle finger is used get a crude estimate of the blood pressure, and the finger most distal to the heart (usually the ring finger) is used to nullify the effect of the ulnar pulse as the two arteries are connected via the palmar arches (superficial and deep). The study of the pulse is known as sphygmology.

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1. pulsesnoun

   Plural noun and verb form of the word pulse.

   The computer operates on a variety of pulses that communicate with other hardware within the digital system.

   
   

   Submitted by MaryC on October 3, 2016  

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1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of Pulses in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of Pulses in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Examples of Pulses in a Sentence

1. De Souza:

   We did this study as one in (a) series of papers we are working on to assess the effects of pulses on blood pressure, blood cholesterol, body weight, and appetite control to help guidelines committees to better formulate dietary advice.

2. Cynthia Sass:

   Beans are pulses, and studies show that people who eat them tend to weigh less and have smaller waistlines.

3. De Souza:

   This is where eating more pulses in your daily diet can really help, we think.

4. Tom Painter:

   The scanning LIDAR is a fancy laser pointer, essentially, that sprays out laser pulses – about 500,000 pulses per second – flying along at 23,000 feet, and measures how long it takes for the laser pulse to go out, hit the surface and come back, and we can use that information to then know the surface of the snow. Every square foot of mountain snow is touched by our lasers.

5. Craig Tucker:

   We know the dissolved oxygen in the river plummeted two nights in a row as these pulses of mud hit the main stem of the river, so it is very clear to us that we had a high intensity fire and then we had a flash flooding event kind of come behind the fire and it just rushed ash and debris and mud into the river, virtually everything in the river died.

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