Medical Abbreviations List #25

The beat of an artery that is felt when the heart pumps blood through the body.

• Pulse Deficit

• Pulse

• Quality

Regularity or irregularity of pulse, heartbeat, or respiration.

• Arrhythmia

• Rate

• Rhythm

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS1-3

Uneven intervals between pulse or heartbeats.

• Arrhythmia

• Quality

• Rate

Difference in pulse counts taken simultaneously at two sites.

• Apical Pulse

• Rhythm

• Pulse Deficit

Number of pulse beats, heartbeats, or respirations per minute.

• Pulse

• Quality

• Rate

Volume; Strength of pulse beats

• Rhythm

• Rate

• Quality

Heartrate counted at the apex of the heart using a stethoscope.

• Apical Pulse

• Pulse Deficit

• Rhythm