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pulse (puls) pulsation. the beat of the heart as felt through the walls of a peripheral artery, such as that felt in the radial artery at the wrist. What is felt is not the blood pulsing through the arteries but a shock wave that travels along the walls of the arteries as the heart contracts.
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