heart rate

noun

: the rate at which the heart beats

Aerobic exercise increases your heart rate.

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Earning our Editor's Choice Award for high-end fitness tracker, the Garmin Vivoactive 4 measures tons of advanced metrics, including (underwater) heart rate, respiration rate, stress level, pulse ox, and more, with access to over 20 preloaded sports apps and on-screen animations. —

Cierra Cowan, PCMAG, 12 Nov. 2024 Your autonomic nervous system regulates involuntary functions such as breathing, heart rate, blood pressure, and digestion. —

Heidi Cope, Health, 6 Nov. 2024 Even after a couple days of running, the required pace still elicited basically the same heart rate. —

Alex Hutchinson, Outside Online, 4 Nov. 2024 After two hours of IV fluids, one dose of antibiotics, and some Tylenol, Crain’s fever didn’t go down, her pulse remained high, and the fetal heart rate was abnormally fast, medical records show. —

Lizzie Presser and Kavitha Surana, CNN, 3 Nov. 2024 See all Example Sentences for heart rate