take pulse

take someone's pulse

to measure the frequency of the beats of a person's pulse. I can take my own pulse. The nurse took my pulse and said I was fine.

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Terence	TER-ənts	English
Anshel	-	Yiddish
Shikoba	-	Native American, Choctaw
Sebastian	[si:'bæstjən]
Sieger	-	Dutch, German
Zareen	-	Persian