pulsation

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Scientists have long recognized that stiffness and excessive pulsation in large arteries are linked to stroke, dementia, and small vessel disease.

From Science Daily

Even in this much more complex environment, where the pulsations of blood vessels and the movement of breathing provide additional confounds, the mosTF scope still achieved a four-fold better signal-to-background ratio.

From Science Daily

The spinal cord is an "unfriendly area" for traditional imaging techniques due to significant motion artifacts, such as heart pulsation and breathing.

From Science Daily

Red supergiants are known to develop such pulsations in the denouement of their life.

From Scientific American

Perhaps the most recurrent and laden with meaning — at times a bit too heavily — is a hand at the heart, cupped or with fingers blooming upward, paired with pulsations of the chest.

From New York Times