Pulsation

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun A single beat or throb of a series.

II. Pulsation ·noun Any touching of another's body willfully or in anger. This constitutes battery.

III. Pulsation ·noun A stroke or impulse by which some medium is affected, as in the propagation of sounds.

IV. Pulsation ·noun A beating or throbbing, especially of the heart or of an artery, or in an inflamed part; a beat of the pulse.