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That is, every fourth beat is more forceful (as seen in Aortic Stenosis). This is an example of regularly irregular, as the heartbeat is irregular, but the pattern can be predicted and is regular. Wenkebach is also regularly irregular. O-o-o-o -o-o o -o -o-o-o- o. Overview An irregular heartbeat is called an arrhythmia. A sinus arrhythmia is an irregular heartbeat that’s either too fast or too slow. One type of sinus arrhythmia, called respiratory sinus. If the heart is irregular (dysrhythmic), sometimes one becomes abnormally aware of the heartbeat and this is called a palpitation. If the dysrhythmia is more severe then the heart will cease to function effectively as a pump. If the cardiac output is impaired then the blood pressure will drop. Because everyone had that special feeling when they first palpated one!A promotional video for the Queen's School of Medicine annual Medical Variety Night.
Pulse Quality Chart
Pulse | Description | Meaning |
Choppy | Pulse is uneven and rough. Classically defined as a knife scraping bamboo. | Blood deficiency or blood stagnation |
Deep | Pulse has most strength at lowest level and requires deep pressure to feel well. | Internal organ deficiency |
Fast | Pulse is greater than 80 beats per mintue. | Heat, either excess or deficient |
Full | Pulse can be felt strongly on all three levels (superficial, middle and deep). | Heat, excess or both. |
Hurried | Irregularly irregular and fast. Pulse seems to miss a beat with no apparent pattern. | Internal heat causing recklessness of blood, condition is deep and serious. |
Intermittent | Regularly irregular. Pulse seems to miss a beat with a definite pattern. | Heart organ disharmony or exhaustion of the organs |
Knotted | Irregularly irregular and slow. Pulse seems to miss a beat with no apparent pattern. | Cold obstructing the flow of qi and blood. |
Short | Pulse doesn't seem to fill all three positions (front, middle, rear). | Qi deficiency or congenital problem. |
Slippery | Pulse feels like pearls coursing through the pulse, with a definitive rolling quality. The pulse quickly hits each individual finger and just as quickly rolls away. | Dampness of any variety, phlegm, pregnancy. |
Slow | Pulse is less than 60 beats per minute. | Cold in the interior, or severe qi deficiency |
Superficial | Pulse has most strength at upper-most level, and can be felt with only a slight touch. | External pathogen (OPI) or Yin deficiency |
Thin | Exactly what it says. Pulse simply feels thinner than it should. | Blood or qi deficiency. |
Tight | Pulse feels taught like a rope, thicker than wiry, feels as if the pulse evenly hits the fingers in different places with every beat. | Cold, usually causing stagnation. |
Weak | Strength of the pulse is minimal, and with more pressure cannot be felt at all. | Qi deficiency |
Wiry | Pulse feels like a thin rope that bounds up against the fingers evenly but with force. | Qi stagnation, especially in Liver, can also be phlegm |
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- light year - Not a length of time but a distance, the distance a pulse of light travels in one year (about 5.88 trillion miles).
- pea - Comes from Greek pison, 'pulse, pease.'
- asphyxia - Its original meaning was stoppage of the pulse.
- ictus - The beat of the pulse, based on the Latin word for 'stroke.'
pulse
Past participle: pulsed
Gerund: pulsing
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pulse
Noun | 1. | pulse - (electronics) a sharp transient wave in the normal electrical state (or a series of such transients); 'the pulsations seemed to be coming from a star' pulsation, pulsing, impulse electronics - the branch of physics that deals with the emission and effects of electrons and with the use of electronic devices undulation, wave - (physics) a movement up and down or back and forth |
2. | pulse - the rhythmic contraction and expansion of the arteries with each beat of the heart; 'he could feel the beat of her heart' periodic event, recurrent event - an event that recurs at intervals diastole - the widening of the chambers of the heart between two contractions when the chambers fill with blood systole - the contraction of the chambers of the heart (especially the ventricles) to drive blood into the aorta and pulmonary artery throbbing, pounding, throb - an instance of rapid strong pulsation (of the heart); 'he felt a throbbing in his head' | |
3. | pulse - the rate at which the heart beats; usually measured to obtain a quick evaluation of a person's health vital sign - sign of life; usually an indicator of a person's general physical condition; 'he was still alive but his vital signs were weak' femoral pulse - pulse of the femoral artery (felt in the groin) radial pulse - pulse of the radial artery (felt in the wrist) rate - a magnitude or frequency relative to a time unit; 'they traveled at a rate of 55 miles per hour'; 'the rate of change was faster than expected' | |
4. | pulse - edible seeds of various pod-bearing plants (peas or beans or lentils etc.) legume - the seedpod of a leguminous plant (such as peas or beans or lentils) | |
Verb | 1. | pulse - expand and contract rhythmically; beat rhythmically; 'The baby's heart was pulsating again after the surgeon massaged it' pulsate, quiver, beat - move with or as if with a regular alternating motion; 'the city pulsated with music and excitement' thump, beat, pound - move rhythmically; 'Her heart was beating fast' |
2. | pulse - produce or modulate (as electromagnetic waves) in the form of short bursts or pulses or cause an apparatus to produce pulses; 'pulse waves'; 'a transmitter pulsed by an electronic tube' produce, create, make - create or manufacture a man-made product; 'We produce more cars than we can sell'; 'The company has been making toys for two centuries' | |
3. | pulse - drive by or as if by pulsation; 'A soft breeze pulsed the air' move, displace - cause to move or shift into a new position or place, both in a concrete and in an abstract sense; 'Move those boxes into the corner, please'; 'I'm moving my money to another bank'; 'The director moved more responsibilities onto his new assistant' |
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1[pʌls]to take sb's pulse → tomar el pulso a algn
he keeps his finger on the company's pulse → está tomandoconstantemente el pulsoa lacompañía, se mantiene al tanto de lo quepasaen lacompañía
pulse rateN → frecuenciafdelpulso
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2[pʌls]N (Bot, Culin) → legumbrefpulse
[ˈpʌls]nto take sb's pulse, to feel sb's pulse → prendre le pouls de qn
The nurse felt his pulse → L'infirmière a pris son pouls.
to have one's finger on the pulse → prendre la température
to have one's finger on the pulse of sth → prendre le pouls de qch, prendre la température de qch
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[pʌls]n (Anat) → polso (Phys) → impulso (fig) (of drums, music) → vibrazionefto feel or take sb's pulse → sentireortastare il polso a qn
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(pals) nounpulse
→ نَبْضَة tep pulsPulsσφυγμόςpulsoRegularly Irregular Pulse Rhythm
sykepouls pulsbattito cardiaco 脈拍 맥박polsslagpulspulspulsoпульс puls ชีพจรnabız mạchRegularly Irregular Pulse Causes
脉搏pulse
n. pulso, dilatación arterial rítmica que gen. coincide con los latidos cardíacos;pulse
n pulso; I’m going to take your pulse..Voy a tomarle el pulso..pulse of steroids..pulso de esteroides; carotid (radial, etc.) — pulso carotídeo (radial, etc.)Want to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, or visit the webmaster's page for free fun content.
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