heart rate

noun

: the rate at which the heart beats

Aerobic exercise increases your heart rate.

Examples of heart rate in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

In August 2023, doctors discovered that her months of chest pain, shortness of breath and an elevated heart rate were actually caused by tumors pressing against her trachea, heart and arteries, leading to a stage 2 Hodgkin lymphoma diagnosis. —Tereza Shkurtaj, PEOPLE, 23 May 2026

Common warning signs of sepsis can include confusion, rapid breathing, extreme weakness, low blood pressure, fast heart rate and bluish or mottled skin, per the CDC. —Melissa Rudy, FOXNews.com, 23 May 2026

The breath hold is believed to further raise vagal tone, which brings down stress hormones and lifts heart rate variability. —Allison Palmer, Miami Herald, 23 May 2026

This sends a signal along sensory nerve fibers to the autonomic nervous system, specifically the sympathetic branch, which is the same system that regulates your heart rate, sweat response and pupil dilation. —Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 22 May 2026

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Medical Definition

heart rate

noun

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