heartbeat
Ticker's steady rhythm
A heartbeat is one complete cycle of the heart's contraction and relaxation, pumping blood through the body.
The word often refers to the rhythmic sound or sensation: I could feel my heartbeat racing.
Figuratively, someone or something can be the heartbeat of a place or movement—its vital center: Small businesses are the heartbeat of the local economy.
In a heartbeat means instantly or without hesitation: I'd do it again in a heartbeat.
Arterial blood throb
- rhythmPatterned stress and silence
- throbBeat with intensity
- poundingForceful repeated striking
- cardiacPertaining to the heart
rate · systole · diastole · palpitation · arrhythmia · tachycardia · bradycardia · fibrillation
Patterned stress and silence
- tempoRate of musical performance
- drumStruck percussion cylinder
- bassDeep pitch or fish
- percussionSound through impact
pulse · syncopation · downbeat · measure · time · cadence · groove · backbeat
Speed competition sport
- poundingForceful repeated striking
- flutterRapid light movement
- skipTo deliberately exclude
- quickeningFirst felt fetal movement
nervous · excited · anxious · anticipation · fear · love · thrill · panic
pulse
Arterial blood throb
cardiac · rate · systole · diastole · palpitation · arrhythmia · tachycardia · bradycardia · fibrillation · irregular
rhythm
Patterned stress and silence
percussion · pulse · syncopation · downbeat · measure · time · cadence · groove · backbeat · kick
racing
Speed competition sport
quickening · nervous · excited · anxious · anticipation · fear · love · thrill · panic · dread
vital
Essential or sustaining existence
existence · survival · consciousness · animation · lifeforce · awakening · mortality · presence · being · essence
core
Central essential portion
essence · lifeblood · soul · nucleus · epicenter · nerve · anchor · foundation · spirit · driving force
- compound wordsbookmark, breakdown, sunlight, breakup, snowflake
- soundssound, beeps, listen, sounds, hear
- Circulatory Systemblood, artery, veins, capillary, arteries
- deathdead, deceased, corpse, mortality, demise
- heartcardiac, ventricles, aorta, atria, atrium
- pregnancypregnancy, pregnant, prenatal care, due date, weeks
heartbeatflatline
Show no heartbeat
cardiac arrest · asystole · death · lifelessness · stillness
- in a heartbeatWithout any delay
- irregular heartbeatAbnormal cardiac rhythm
- fast heartbeatAccelerated pulse rate
- fetal heartbeatUnborn child's cardiac activity
- slow heartbeatAbnormally low pulse rate
- heartbeat monitorCardiac rhythm tracking device