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pulse

 
 
/pʌls/ noun [C]

Translation

the regular movement of blood through your body when your heart is beating
nabız, nabız atışı
She put her fingers on my wrist to take my pulse (= count the number of beats per minute). My pulse rate is 70.548
(Definition of pulse noun from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary English-Turkish © Cambridge University Press)

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