## Meanings
1. The regular beating of blood through your body, which you can feel at your wrist or neck.
2. A single strong beat or throb, or a regular series of them.
3. A short burst of energy such as light or radio waves.
4. To beat or move in a steady, rhythmic way.

## Examples
- The nurse checked the patient's pulse.
- She could feel the steady pulse of the music in her chest.
- The laser sends out short pulses of light.
- The whole club seemed to pulse with the beat of the bass.

## Derived Forms
- aeropulse
- afterpulse
- anthropulse
- apulse
- attopulse
- electropulse
- interpulse
- intrapulse
- macropulse
- micropulse
- monopulse
- multipulse

## Related Forms
- arrhythmia
- heartbeat
- impulse
- meter
- pulsate
- pulsating
- pulsation
- pulsative
- pulsator
- pulsatory
- pulser
- pulsion

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: *pel- (beat)
- Root: pulse
- Root: pous
- Root: puls
- Root: pouls
- Root: pulsus
- Root: *pel-

## Etymology
From Late Middle English pulse, Middle English pous, pouse (“regular beat of arteries, pulse; heartbeat; place on the body where a pulse is detectable; beat (of a musical instrument); energy, vitality”) [and other forms], from Anglo-Norman puls, pous, pus, and Middle French pouls, poulz, pous [and other forms], Old French pous, pulz (“regular beat of arteries; place on the body where a pulse is detectable”) (modern French pouls), and from their etymon Latin pulsus (“beat, impulse, pulse, stroke; regular beat of arteries or the heart”), from pellō (“to drive, impel, propel, push; to banish, eje…

## AI Etymology
Pulse comes from Late Middle English pulse, Middle English pous, pouse (“regular beat of arteries, pulse; heartbeat; place on the body where a pulse is detectable; beat (of a musical instrument); energy, vitality”) [and other forms], from Anglo-Norman puls, pous, pus, and Middle French pouls, poulz, pous [and other forms], Old French pous, pulz (“regular beat of arteries; place on the body where a pulse is detectable”) (modern French pouls), and from their etymon Latin pulsus (“beat, impulse, pulse, stroke; regular beat of arteries or the heart”), from pellō. The historical chain includes *pel- (beat) (Proto-Indo-European), pulse (Middle English), pous (Middle English), puls (xno), pouls (Middle French), pous (Old French). In present-day English it covers the regular beating of blood through your body, which you can feel at your wrist or neck, a single strong beat or throb, or a regular series of them, and a short burst of energy such as light or radio waves. The wider family includes derived forms such as aeropulse, afterpulse, anthropulse, apulse, attopulse and related forms such as arrhythmia, heartbeat, impulse, meter.

## Topics
- Describing Qualities
- The Human Body

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