What is pulse rate, Biology

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Each time the left ventricle contracts and forces blood into the aorta, it expands to adjust additional blood. And blood already present is pushed to other section and also expands. In this way a wave of expansion is created and is over as it reaches the capillaries. This wave of expansion is pulse.

Pulse can be felt in the arteries. Arteries are under the control of autonomic nervous system.

 


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