stress test
noun
: an electrocardiographic test of heart function before, during, and after a controlled period of increasingly strenuous exercise (as on a treadmill)
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Their imaging looked like what’s seen in a stress test.
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Elizabeth Cooney, STAT, 10 June 2024
Patients who would otherwise wait several weeks for outpatient stress tests can complete assessments in the ER within hours.
—Eva Roytburg, Fortune, 7 June 2024
Two hundred and fifty years later, the heart and lungs of liberty are facing what may be the ultimate stress test.
—ABC News, 2 June 2024
And this week on Face the Nation: America's relations with Israel face a serious stress test amid accusations that the ally likely violated international law in its war with Hamas.
—CBS News, 12 May 2024
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Elizabeth Cooney, STAT, 10 June 2024
Patients who would otherwise wait several weeks for outpatient stress tests can complete assessments in the ER within hours.
—Eva Roytburg, Fortune, 7 June 2024
Two hundred and fifty years later, the heart and lungs of liberty are facing what may be the ultimate stress test.
—ABC News, 2 June 2024
And this week on Face the Nation: America's relations with Israel face a serious stress test amid accusations that the ally likely violated international law in its war with Hamas.
—CBS News, 12 May 2024
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