Vital signs and measures
HR
heart rate
Beats per minute. Typical adult resting range is about 60–100; below that is described as bradycardia and above it as tachycardia.
How it gets tested
The prefixes are the item, and they generalize: brady- is slow and tachy- is fast, in front of any rate.
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