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
Lygia	-	Portuguese (Brazilian)
Aziz	-	Arabic, Persian, Urdu, Uzbek
Raban	-	Ancient Germanic
Marko	MAHR-ko (Finnish)	Ukrainian, Croatian, Serbian, Slovene, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Finnish, Basque
Honorina	-	Late Roman
Naranbaatar	-	Mongolian