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pulsation

[puhl-sey-shuhn] / pʌlˈseɪ ʃən /


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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 Oct. 14, 2025

It’s hard to know what to make of these data, which sometimes include any sign of life, such as umbilical cord pulsation, and don’t obviously differentiate miscarriage, stillbirth, and abortion.

From Slate Sep. 17, 2024

In the opening “Future Blues,” listen for how the regular, rumbling waves of pulsation rub against trebly tendrils of wet, smacking sound.

From New York Times Jan. 26, 2023

Red giants show a behaviour called pulsation, caused by changes in the area and temperature of the star's surface layers.

From BBC Jun. 29, 2020

When taken out of the stocks his skin was cold and shrivelled; there was no perceptible pulsation in the temporal or radial arteries, and he complained of severe cephalgia ...

From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover




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