elevated pulse
Quickened heart rate
An elevated pulse is a heart rate faster than normal, typically above 100 beats per minute at rest.
The phrase appears in medical contexts describing symptoms of anxiety, exertion, fever, or cardiac conditions: The patient presented with elevated pulse and shortness of breath.
Outside clinical settings, it can describe excitement or nervousness: Just seeing her name on my phone gives me an elevated pulse.
- tachycardiaExcessively fast pulse
- racingSpeed competition sport
- heart racingRapid cardiac rhythm
- heartbeatRhythmic cardiac contraction
- heart poundingIntense cardiac sensation
pounding · adrenaline · adrenaline rush · fight or flight · anxiety · palpitations · flutter · throbbing · rapid · quickened · exertion · panic · panic attack · fever · caffeine · stress · rushing · breathless
elevated pulseresting pulse
Heartbeat when idle
resting heart rate · slow pulse · bradycardia · slow heartbeat · slow heart rate
elevated pulserelaxed state
Condition of being calm
calm · at rest · resting · sedation · deep sleep
elevated pulserelaxed state
Condition of being calm
resting state · deep relaxation · sedation · sleep state · meditative state
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