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BEATS

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A United States youth subculture of the 1950s; rejected possessions or regular work or traditional dress; for communal living and psychedelic drugs and anarchism; favored modern forms of jazz (e.g., bebop)

Synonyms:

beat generation; beatniks; beats

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("beats" is a kind of...):

youth subculture (a minority youth culture whose distinctiveness depended largely on the social class and ethnic background of its members; often characterized by its adoption of a particular music genre)

Meronyms (members of "beats"):

beat; beatnik (a member of the beat generation; a nonconformist in dress and behavior)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Present simple (third person singular) of the verb beat

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 Context examples: 

Blood pressure is taken using two measurements: systolic (measured when the heart beats, when blood pressure is at its highest) and diastolic (measured between heart beats, when blood pressure is at its lowest).

(Blood pressure, NCI Dictionary)

In medicine, the number of times the heart beats within a certain time period, usually a minute.

(Heart rate, NCI Dictionary)

The number of heartbeats per unit of time, usually expressed as beats per minute.

(Heart rate, NCI Thesaurus)

The ventricular rate is typically 100-150 beats per minute.

(Multifocal Atrial Tachycardia by ECG Finding, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

A baseline fetal heart rate with a detectable amplitude range that is greater than 6 but less than or equal to 25 beats per minute.

(Moderate Baseline Fetal Heart Rate Variability, NCI Thesaurus)

Characterized by baseline fetal heart rate 110 to 160 beats per minute, moderate baseline variability, absent late or variable decelerations and absent or present early decelerations.

(Normal Continuous Cardiotocography Pattern, NCI Thesaurus)

There are no extra beats or conduction abnormalities.

(Normal Sinus Rhythm, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

A disorder characterized by a dysrhythmia with abrupt onset and sudden termination of atrial contractions with a rate of 150-250 beats per minute.

(Paroxysmal Atrial Tachycardia, NCI Thesaurus/CTCAE)

There is a constant PR interval in the conducted beats.

(Mobitz II, NCI Thesaurus)

The minimum time between successive cycles of contraction and subsequent relaxation of the ventricles, usually expressed as beats per minute, obtained from a set of measurements of the ventricular rate.

(Minimum Ventricular Heart Rate, NCI Thesaurus)