Number of pulse beats, heartbeats, or respirations per minute

Feverish; pertaining to fever

A fever that stays elevated above normal body temperature

A fever that alternates between fever and normal

Regularity or irregularity of the pulse, heartbeat, or respiration

A fever that rises several degrees, drops a degree, but does NOT return to normal

Condition when the heart beats with an irregular rhythm

Volume; strength of pulse beats

Sudden drop from fever to normal body temperature

Excessively rapid heart rate

The beat of the artery you feel when the heart pumps blood

Heart rate counted at the apex of the heart

Below normal body temperature

Difference between pulse taken simultaneously at two different sites; usually apical & radial