pulsation

The regular throbbing of the heart, an artery etc. in a living body; the pulse.countableuncountable

• Pulsation had ceased. For three days the body was preserved unburied, during which it had acquired a stony rigidity.

Any rhythmic beating, throbbing etc.countableuncountable

• Lo! as a dove when up she springs ⁠To bear thro’ Heaven a tale of woe, ⁠Some dolorous message knit below The wild pulsation of her wings; Like her I go; I cannot stay; ⁠I leave this mortal ark behind […]

The rhythmic increase and decrease of size in naked zoospores and plasmodia.countableuncountable

Physical striking; a blow.archaiccountableuncountable

• By the Cornelian law, pulsation as well as verberation is prohibited.

A single beat, throb or vibration.countableuncountable