heartbeat
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The scans also revealed signs that the heart muscle was less able to flex normally during each heartbeat.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 11, 2026
Yet of course the pain comes harder when you realize you would do it all again in a heartbeat just to have a little more time with them.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 7, 2026
According to the NHS,, external an arrhythmia is when the heart beats too quickly or too slowly, or the heartbeat is not steady.
From BBC ● Sep. 1, 2026
Like the Collins hit, “My Lover” sounds like it could be a cover of something old and rare, because it’s perfectly, classically constructed, with a bass line like a heartbeat, driving it along.
From Salon ● Aug. 25, 2026
He shut out all distractions and heard his own heartbeat.
From "Healer of the Water Monster" by Brian Young
The native population in the Amazon thinks that because they are fluttering so fast with a thousand heartbeats per minute that they must have more than one life in them.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 16, 2026
Forget the old idea that physical activity drains your supply of heartbeats.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 1, 2025
If left unchecked, dehydration can cause more serious complications, such as fainting and irregular heartbeats.
From Salon ● Jan. 21, 2025
After his two previous episodes of atrial flutter, Harbaugh underwent ablations, which are minimally invasive procedures that treat irregular heartbeats by destroying heart tissue that causes abnormal electrical signals.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2024
A cloud of breath escaped her mouth every ten or twenty heartbeats.
From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell
