tachycardia
The medical term for rapid but regular atrial or ventricular contractions is tachycardia.
The pulse rate is the number of times you can feel the heart beat.99You are descibing the pulse, or heart rate.
Ventricular tachycardia is the term for rapid heart rate starting in the ventricles. Any resting pulse rate over 100 in an adult is defined as tachycardia.
In music, the term "beat" refers to the basic unit of time in a piece of music. It is the steady pulse that helps to organize the rhythm and tempo of a musical composition.
Ventricular fibrillation is the term for rapid irregular contractions of the ventricles. Because the contractions are unsynchronized and random, the ventricles do not pump effectively. The patient may have no palpable pulse, and the condition can be fatal.
The condition of irregular quivering of the atria and rapid ventricular heartbeat is atrial fibrillation, or a-fib. While serious, a-fib is not immediately life threatening.
Throb is the medical term meaning to pulse painfully.
That's the carotid pulse.
Tachyphasia is the medical term meaning rapid speech.
Tachycardia
The amount of time the pulse lasts
Fibrillation is the medical term meaning rapid uncoordinated shuddering of the heart.