heart rate

noun

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

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The Fitbit Charge 6 fitness tracker is packed with features like 40 workout modes, built-in Google Maps and Wallet, and even syncs your heart rate to gym equipment. Shubham Yewale, PCMAG, 3 Feb. 2025 Measuring heart rate is the easier task, as the cardiac tissue produces obvious electrical signals when the muscles depolarize and repolarize to produce each heartbeat. IEEE Spectrum, 3 Feb. 2025 Wearable devices have become a big part of modern health care, helping track a patient’s heart rate, stress levels and brain activity. Krittika Goyal, The Conversation, 29 Jan. 2025 Breathing exercises can temporarily lower your blood pressure and heart rate by activating the vagus nerve.1 The vagus nerve is part of the parasympathetic nervous system, sending signals to and from the brain, heart, and gut. Angela Ryan Lee, Verywell Health, 16 Jan. 2025 See all Example Sentences for heart rate 

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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

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