If it detects an abnormally rapid heartbeat, it sends an electrical surge to a defibrillator coil and jolts the heart back into a normal rhythm. |
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A heartbeat, a voice, and a burr of conscience I continue to gratefully hear. |
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My head was buzzing as I tried to put myself to sleep using the familiar sound of Julian's heartbeat. |
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She thought her little five-year-old heartbeat came to a dead stop in the silence. |
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The other two guards were stunned to see their partner raised from the ground, but their shock lasted only a heartbeat. |
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Somewhere in all this the heart of a free nation has got to be still beating strongly, even if the heartbeat sounds faint to my ears. |
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By embarrassing the Vice-President you are a heartbeat away from providing aid and comfort to our enemies. |
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He drops a dime on his friend in a heartbeat, since he still wanted the money. |
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Cale looked through his scope and took slow deep breaths to lower his heartbeat thus steadying his aim. |
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They took my temperature constantly, measured pulse and blood pressure and worried over a cardiogram showing a slightly irregular heartbeat. |
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It rises to a peak, called the systolic pressure, at the height of the contraction of each heartbeat as the heart pumps blood out. |
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Other drugs may be given if pain persists, if there is fluid on the lungs or a fast heartbeat. |
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Then I realized that I couldn't hear anything at all, nothing but a constant thudding like a heartbeat in my eardrum. |
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He remembered the day's events vividly and felt his heartbeat quicken pace as he remembered the routine attack on the Alliance convoy. |
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It will be able to project a light that glows in rhythm with the heartbeat of the runners. |
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However they may lead to palpitations, which is an unpleasant awareness of the heartbeat, often described as a thumping in the chest. |
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There was that strange, high pitched tune playing somewhere beyond his right ear, accompanying the double thump of his heartbeat. |
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After four hours of climbing the near vertical mountain footpath, the headache had matured into a persistent thump with each heartbeat. |
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Marcy felt her breath quicken, her heartbeat accelerate and crescendo in her ears to an overpowering drone. |
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I could feel his breath against my neck and through my dress I could feel his heartbeat pulsating through my body as he pulled me closer. |
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The common symptoms of anaemia are tiredness, shortness of breath and awareness of the heartbeat. |
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Looking across the dark waters that separate our houses, I can't help but feel my heartbeat quicken and the resolve in my mind harden. |
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My whole mouth throbs with each heartbeat, a little movement coming to my extremities, allowing me to flex my fingers. |
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Despite this, Perry started to massage the president's chest with his long fingers, trying to force a heartbeat. |
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If there was a school for witchcraft and wizardry, I'd sign up in a heartbeat. |
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In many ways, Pittman is a reincarnation of former team heartbeat Larry Centers. |
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The heartbeat of the Portuguese team, a fighter as well as an artist, he's had an absolute blinder. |
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They were the team's engine and heartbeat, and without them things would not function effectively. |
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If not, would the popular VP of eight years run as a Republican and oppose the party that had put him a heartbeat away from the Presidency? |
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His threshold challenge tonight is to convince the American people that he is prepared to be a heartbeat away from the presidency. |
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Her excitement caused him to diagnose an erratic heartbeat, which restricted freedom of movement and made her feel like an invalid. |
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The neighbor's dog barked relentlessly, giving the night a heartbeat to add to his own. |
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This is used to treat irregularities in the heartbeat and so is known as an antiarrythmic drug. |
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Also included is the rumba, which is said to be the heartbeat of the Cuban people. |
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Similarly, the most soothing music usually beats at about 70 to 80 tones per minute, which resembles the natural rhythm of a heartbeat. |
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Last season, he missed games because of fatigue and dizziness and was diagnosed with an irregular heartbeat. |
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She could only distantly hear the shouts of her comrades over the rushing water and her own anxious heartbeat. |
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Your heartbeat is monitored throughout the procedure using an electrocardiograph machine. |
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The body needs a constant supply of energy to power the continuous processes of life, such as the heartbeat, breathing and digestion. |
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People with an irregular heartbeat or arrhythmia also may have palpitations. |
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During diastole, blood fills the veins and moves cephalad with each heartbeat. |
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It defies any genre classification, because it can go from insanely heavy drama to light farce in a heartbeat. |
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Rapid heartbeat turns into tachycardia and a heart attack is a myocardial infarction. |
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He felt his heartbeat pump overtime as a pair of coal-black eyes gazed at him with contained fury. |
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The doctor said that if he had to make an educated guess based on the heartbeat, he would bet that it is a girl. |
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Suddenly he could hear his heartbeat drumming in his ears, muffling out the rest of the surrounding clatter. |
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She pushed herself against his body, against his chest where there was no heartbeat. |
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The fledgling's breathing and heartbeat slowed, taut muscles went slack, and his third eyelids slid halfway across his bright gaze. |
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The heartbeat of the landowners' movement is the small trailer which serves as their base camp and humble headquarters. |
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Out of nowhere, she's got needle and thread in one hand, and in the space of a heartbeat, she's pulled her chair beside mine. |
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He could feel the sweats in his hands, and the heartbeat pounding against his rib cage. |
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The main sign of an aortic aneurysm is a lump in the abdomen, high up and a little to the right, that pulses obviously with the heartbeat. |
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The midwife or doctor may use a device placed on the abdomen to amplify the heartbeat. |
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An erratic thudding that I soon recognized as my own heartbeat echoed in my ears at the sight. |
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Today, it seems that through the various medium of communications every heartbeat is shared by the world. |
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Most people have experienced these occasional, brief irregular heartbeats that feel like a skipped, fluttering or racing heartbeat. |
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Each tick of the clock was accompanied by the amplified sound of a human heartbeat. |
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At this time of night, the tick of the clock synchronises itself with my heartbeat. |
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Their respiration, heartbeat, and body temperature do not drop as low as true hibernators. |
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I see her in every beautiful woman, in every danger that threatens to overtake me, in every heartbeat, every flicker of emotion. |
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Her heartbeat quickens when the footsteps suddenly stop, and the door to the bedroom opens and closes. |
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Drop-dead gorgeous, she has the amazing ability to go from incredibly sweet to incredibly deadly in a heartbeat. |
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They had only been dating a year before he asked her to marry him and she accepted in a heartbeat. |
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He guessed Garnet had the kind of money that could make that charge go away in a heartbeat anyway. |
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As you make your way through the woods in the deep snow, the soft pad of your snowshoes and your own heartbeat are about all you can hear. |
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Symptoms of shock include lethargy, rapid heartbeat, weak pulse, low blood pressure, and rapid breathing. |
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Asha waited expectantly, with a trace of fear and curiosity, her heartbeat quickening slightly at the prospect. |
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The darkness of winter slows the city's heartbeat, making our every action or movement an effort. |
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You can bet your bippy that if the Massachusetts rate were lower, she would be domiciled there in a heartbeat. |
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Prudence tried to tune out their angry voices, instead listening to the sound of her own heartbeat. |
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Pacemakers are usually used to treat an abnormally slow heartbeat which can cause dizziness, fainting or blackouts. |
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The sight of Midge shot blood to every corner of his being, drowning his pain further with each heartbeat. |
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He had suffered a blood clot which led to an irregular heartbeat and has now been told by doctors to stop working a 70-hour week. |
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Low blood pressure and irregular heartbeat are the most significant side effects. |
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However, investigations later showed it was only an increased heartbeat which is less serious than first thought. |
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Mr Ellis was not breathing and no pulse or heartbeat was detectable but mouth-to-mouth resuscitation and heart massage saved him. |
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The only reason I even went to work was for money, otherwise I would have quit in a heartbeat. |
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Her breathing became deep and slow, her heartbeat slackened and she lifted her face to the heat of the sun. |
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A heartbeat is when the muscles of the heart contract and push blood around the body. |
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As he shuffled to the side, another slug tore a huge hole in the wall where he had been a heartbeat before, throwing wood pieces in his face. |
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We, the richest, most powerful nation on the planet, could solve our social problems in a heartbeat. |
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Carried thusly, they may be snicked off the belt clip in a heartbeat for use as a hand-held light, or instantly attached to a pistol. |
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At present the suggestion that measuring brainwaves and heartbeat rates could also be achieved was only theoretical, he added. |
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The loss of blood had caused Hollynn's system to completely shut down, her brainwaves and heartbeat barely evident on the monitors. |
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All he said was that he was sorry and he could not detect a heartbeat for the baby and that the baby was no longer alive. |
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He was practically surrounded by copters loaded with heavily armed Secret Service agents who could ruin your day in a heartbeat. |
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This unstable heart rhythm produces an ineffective heartbeat, causing insufficient blood flow to vital organs. |
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In scenes in which a man, begging for his job, clutches the ankle of his golf-playing boss, the mood is barely a heartbeat away from unbearable melodrama. |
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He became delirious, his heartbeat grew ragged, his blood teemed with the virus, and his lungs, liver and kidneys began to fail. |
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As I listened to the steady in-and-out of my own breathing, and the increasing rapidness of my heartbeat, I wished, for a moment in time, that Kerwin would kiss me. |
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He was quiet, his heartbeat a slow and steady thump against my palm. |
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Despite little hope that either could be saved, rescuers tried to revive them and after working for 30 minutes heard a faint heartbeat coming from Andreas. |
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Behind the Hot Springs ' sweet hooks and sing-song melodies is a punk heartbeat, an intensity embedded in their serrated riffage and Webber's sexy snarl. |
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I pulled the sticky cotton T-shirt from my chest and began to pulse it in and out, like a heartbeat, trying to fan away the rivers of sweat pouring down my chest. |
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Of course, they back away in a heartbeat when the stronger road agents ride into town, or when they are challenged by someone they know to be better or smarter. |
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The heartbeat accelerates and gives you a surge of self-confident energy that may be needed to face that rollocking from the boss or to win over the next skeptical customer. |
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A former legislative director of Ohio Right to Life, Porter is in many ways the godmother of the heartbeat movement. |
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It has its own heartbeat and a sincerity and entertainment value, and is quite uplifting. |
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But after Stonewall, the Village had a big 1970s as the heartbeat of gay America. |
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He lets go of the bird, touching its breast for a heartbeat. |
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It throbs like the heartbeat of a newborn or the rhythm of a drum. |
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She listened to her heartbeat as it thudded in her chest, and she felt the throb of Jason's heart beating through his chest as he lay against her. |
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His heartbeat thrummed in his ears, his face hot with blood. |
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His heartbeat seemed to thunder in his ears with excitement. |
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Unexpectedly, a cheer tore through the crowd like a Mexican wave, my heartbeat increasing, making me feel energized and agitated, more determined than ever. |
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Implanted in the chest, the ICD is a small electronic device which shocks the heart back into a healthy rhythm if it detects an abnormal heartbeat. |
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During the ultrasound I was informed no movement or heartbeat was detected and she had passed away. |
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A normal heart rhythm is one in which each heartbeat originates in the sinus node and proceeds normally through the rest of the body's electric conduction system. |
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Gina's bubble car and a hearse which has been driven by Greengrass are to go under the hammer this weekend, as an East Yorkshire farmer's business loses its heartbeat. |
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Indeed, the burn rate is the heartbeat of these young companies. |
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The female Sphinx moved to extend a paw, which contained a small silver headband set with a single cabochon of amethyst, that pulsated in time with a heartbeat. |
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Why did he go from nearly human to cruel demon in a heartbeat? |
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I sat up when I heard the doorbell and my heartbeat quickened as I got to my feet and raced out of my room, down the stairs and stopped at the bottom one. |
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His breathing did not change, nor did his heartbeat quicken. |
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His squeeze grew just a little lighter than usual when he felt her heartbeat quicken far more than it usually did, her breath intake having been sharp. |
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She scrambled away, her heartbeat suddenly quickening in fear. |
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For twelve years Keane has been the heartbeat of the United team. |
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Why would he be qualified to be a heartbeat away from the president? |
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She had me out of the wet suit and into a warm tub in a heartbeat. |
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Now, any reasonable jury would find Marty not guilty in a heartbeat. |
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The two men inspected recently installed systems for checking passports and detecting stowaways on vehicles, including heartbeat sensors and gamma ray scanners. |
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This node is called the pacemaker of the heart because it sets the rate of the heartbeat and causes the rest of the heart to contract in its rhythm. |
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Bell was also a sycophant, a Yes man, who could shift his political stance in a heartbeat, talk in circles and dodge any important decision making. |
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Pressed up against her, Aelex could feel the fluttering heartbeat. |
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Furthermore, you know that the expected lifetime of the product is uncertain and depends upon future contingencies, including your own way of life, your heartbeat. |
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The casual Francophile browsing in the bookstore will flip through and feel his heartbeat speed up at the sight of so many period photographs and illustrations. |
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My heartbeat accelerated while a thin layer of sweat prickled my neck. |
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He was pale and sweaty with distended neck veins and a rapid heartbeat. |
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Taking ethchlorvynol during the last 3 months of pregnancy may cause slow heartbeat, shortness of breath, troubled breathing, or withdrawal side effects in the newborn baby. |
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I'd stalk you in a heartbeat if I felt like it, but Montez can dream on. |
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The band moves from wistful to upbeat and jangly in a heartbeat, creating a deep, textured sound that's, frankly, a lot of fun to listen to. |
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Researchers then measured whether there was evidence of a gestational sac or a fetal heartbeat 42 days after embryo transfer. |
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In the systolic and diastolic phases of heartbeat, two contour lines were drawn to delineate the endocardium and epicardium. |
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Multiple ectopic beats may lead to a rapid uncoordinated heartbeat that can cause death. |
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There are objections to fencing in and compartmentalizing terrorists who plot to kill enemies in a heartbeat? |
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Gaskell, using frogs' hearts, proved that the heartbeat was, as Haller had suggested, of myogenic origin. |
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The mixing might be a little bit clanky but the spirit and the heartbeat of what I'll be playing will be what people recognise and love. |
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Mitch Winehouse had also stated that his daughter's lungs were operating at 70 percent capacity and that she had an irregular heartbeat. |
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Even as I said that, my heartbeat raced faster, my stomach parkoured around my middle. |
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Also, mexiletine, used to regulate heartbeat, has been effective in treating pain in several clinical trials. |
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To keep their blood pressure stable, phocids have an elastic aorta that dissipates some energy of each heartbeat. |
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The heartbeat usually starts in the sinus node located in the right atrium. |
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His heartbeat increased in intensity, his hormones went through the roof, and his mind became woozy. |
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Sjostrom's game is predicated on strong skating. He accelerates in a heartbeat with a lightning quick stride and changes direction smoothly. |
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One point three parsecs from Earth a heartbeat was being monitored by an Amneshahn telebooth. |
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Each dance movement was vividly delineated with the Sarabande as the slow, steady heartbeat of the work. |
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Also performing calmative techniques cause the decrease of neural system activity that can decrease heartbeat and blood pressure. |
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The University of Leeds research team found that the gas kept sodium channels, which are important for controlling the heartbeat, open for longer. |
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Former Super League Man of Steel Rangi Chase is the attacking heartbeat of Salford and a player who's respected and feared throughout the top-flight competition. |
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Afib is a condition characterized by a rapid and irregular heartbeat that can cause serious complications, including stroke, palpitations, fainting and early death. |
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The researchers wrote signal-analysis software that helps AICDs tell the difference between ventricular tachycardia, a very rapid heartbeat, and ventricular fibrillation. |
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While we are left to decide in private what constitutes the end of life, the gynoticians of our state have decided that a heartbeat alone constitutes its beginning. |
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It feels like barely a heartbeat since they arrived with their game changer, an album bursting with righteous street smarts and a river of proper nouns. |
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As we walked deeper into the darkness, we both knew this could go sideways in a heartbeat. We were sitting ducks. Birds on a wire. Canaries in a coalmine. |
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A flap of skin on his upper leg had been cut back, exposing the muscles, and the exposed arteries had not been severed but were flattened, pulsing with Huskisson's heartbeat. |
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Other research suggests that it does not relate to the heartbeat directly, but rather the speed of emotional affect, which also influences heartbeat. |
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