heartbeat
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Atrial fibrillation is a type of irregular heartbeat that can allow blood clots to form in the heart.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 15, 2026
The 34-year-old described how, when a nurse broke the news that there was no heartbeat during a scan at six months, their "whole world stopped".
From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2026
Gym rats can check their body composition of fat and muscle, people with heart issues can get their heartbeat captured, and mole owners can get their moles mapped to 0.1 mm.
From Slate ● Oct. 8, 2026
Drake Thomas, an Anthropic safety employee, posted on X that he would “burn my equity to the ground in a heartbeat for a 1% higher chance we make it out of this situation alive.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026
What she’d thought must be music, or the crowd around them, was Anat’s heartbeat, just like it had been the night on the fire escape.
From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny
These brain regions are involved in reward processing and in regulating the timing between heartbeats, a measure known as heart rate variability.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 4, 2026
Some research has found that consuming them can lead to health problems, including irregular heartbeats and high blood pressure.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026
Symptoms including dizziness or light-headedness, fainting, noticeable heartbeats, chest pain and shortness of breath.
From BBC ● Feb. 18, 2026
If left unchecked, dehydration can cause more serious complications, such as fainting and irregular heartbeats.
From Salon ● Jan. 21, 2025
I put my hand over his left side, just behind his front leg, and counted the number of heartbeats in fifteen seconds.
From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas
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