(1) The latter practice has previously been ascribed to imprinting and the soothing sound of the mother's heartbeat on the infant.
(2) In Experiment 1, subjects exposed to a sound representing their heartbeat made greater self-attributions for hypothetical outcomes than did subjects exposed to the same sound identified as an extraneous noise.
(3) The results of work by several investigators indicate that crossbridge attachment serves as a positive feedback mechanism that transiently increases the Ca2+ affinity of troponin C (TnC) during each normal heartbeat.
(4) Nevertheless, the mutants survive through stage 41, which is about 20 days beyond the heartbeat stage, and they exhibit normal swimming movements, indicating that gene c does not affect skeletal muscle.
(5) Cardiac slowing that marked the respiratory segmentation of the heartbeat showed consistent relationship with the breath it preceded by 1 to 5 s. Thus, association of respiration and heartbeat must include synergistically central interrelated origins for respiration cardiac rates constituting the RHRR.
(6) And with every heartbeat the blood was pumping up in the air from my thigh.” A man pointed a rifle at his head and threatened to finish him off.
(7) Muirfield can "turn around on you in a heartbeat", Scott had warned beforehand, and so it proved once again.
(8) Other ITV Productions shows bought in by SMG and UTV for broadcast by their ITV franchises include Emmerdale, Heartbeat, I'm a Celebrity … Get Me Out of Here!
(9) This paper documents this analysis, which supports the concept of a close similarity in lifespan heartbeats among mammalian species and among avian species.
(10) Former senator Scott Brown of Massachusetts and Governor Paul LePage of Maine, favorites of the blue-collar north-east, are likely to be angling for jobs in a Trump White House, but a heartbeat away from the presidency.
(11) 2.-- Carcinine had no influence upon heartbeat frequency nor on respiratory movements in rats.
(12) The former TV and radio presenter, who suffers from an irregular heartbeat, sleeps on the bottom bunk of the bed he shares with his cellmate because he is unable to tackle the ladders, the court heard.
(13) The heartbeat bill, passed seemingly out of nowhere by the Ohio senate last week , would have been the most restrictive abortion law in the country.
(14) An acceleration of heartbeat precedes the cardiac arrest observed in about five minutes.
(15) The consultant said: 'As long as there is a foetal heartbeat we can't do anything.'
(16) "We are taking a look at Heartbeat and seeing what we can do to make it less expensive and make it more modern so that the production of the show can continue," he said.
(17) The results suggest that in the early embryonic initial beating chick heart, the contractile system is activated by Ca2+ influx across the sarcolemma accompanying the action potential, and that a Na+-Ca2+ exchange mechanism participates in the relaxation phase of the heartbeat.
(18) With this monitor the evaluation of characteristic parameters of the conduction system of the heart like HV-, AH- and A'H-time, and likely, SACT can easily be performed for every heartbeat on a digital oscilloscope with low resolution or a two-channel chart recorder.
(19) England are to have the slogan "The dream of one team, the heartbeat of millions!!"
(20) Heartbeat, which originally starred Nick Berry as a London policeman transferred to a north Yorkshire village, was for years a mainstay of ITV's Sunday night schedule, attracting audiences of 15 million viewers in its 1990s heyday.
Heartstring
Definition:
(n.) A nerve or tendon, supposed to brace and sustain the heart.
Example Sentences:
(1) The heartstrings were tugged still further before kick-off.
(2) Yet the no campaign has barely pulled those heartstrings.
(3) The melancholy piano of Chopin tugs at Polish heartstrings.
(4) To hear of Mr Pistorius's emotive emesis was to be reminded of a Rumpole tale where a heartstring-tugging performance by the QC is interrupted by the judge who tartly reminds him that this is not a jury trial.
(5) Public education campaigns that aim to tug on the heartstrings of abusers, such as posters depicting women crying and sporting injuries, should be swapped for images of men in handcuffs or in a prison cell.
(6) The grieving process has already been an unusually public strain on the nation’s heartstrings.
(7) Yet the baseball romantic intimately understands the way sports teams tug at a city’s heartstrings, how they become an integral part of urban lore.
(8) Suttie thrums the heartstrings like a flamenco guitarist.
(9) Desperate for any kind of attention, the Mets “marketing department” got on its hands and knees and constructed a letter from 1969 and 1986 Mets , both World Series-winning teams, asking fans for their support under the guise of being a “true New Yorker”, talk about tugging at emotional heartstrings.