heart rate

noun

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

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Or, conversely, the Garmin HRM 600 can pair with your watch to provide even better heart rate data, and distance data for indoor activities like the treadmill. Andrew Williams, Forbes.com, 15 May 2025 That's because the cohort of other women from Jeju — the non-divers with similar genetic makeup — didn't experience the same drop in heart rate. Ari Daniel, NPR, 15 May 2025 One of the key players in this connection is the vagus nerve, which runs from your brain stem to your gut and influences functions as varied as heart rate, digestion, mood and emotional regulation. Dana Santas, CNN Money, 14 May 2025 That delivers continuous heart rate data by the second and does so reliably. Michael Sawh, Wired News, 13 May 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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