heart rate

noun

: the rate at which the heart beats
Aerobic exercise increases your heart rate.

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Users report being able to elevate their heart rate without worrying about injury or feeling too fatigued to finish. Jennifer Shanker, Flow Space, 16 Jan. 2025 Once below 86 degrees or so, the person becomes unconscious, and their breathing and heart rate slow down. Ruth Jessen Hickman, Md, Verywell Health, 15 Jan. 2025 Some of the medications, the clinic said, can lower both heart rate and blood pressure, are only available in intravenous forms and can expand blood vessels. Krystal Nurse, USA TODAY, 13 Jan. 2025 Rose explains that, after their first four-day stay, they were discharged with no answers as to why her daughter’s oxygen and heart rate were dropping. Andrea Wurzburger, People.com, 13 Jan. 2025 See all Example Sentences for heart rate 

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“Heart rate.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/heart%20rate. Accessed 20 Jan. 2025.

Medical Definition

heart rate

noun
: a measure of cardiac activity usually expressed as number of beats per minute see maximum heart rate

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