each time the heart beats it sends a wave or pulse of blood through the arteries
the arteries rare the blood vessels that carry oxygen - containing blood away from the heart to all of the tissues
of the body the pulse a throbbing sensation just underneath the skin can be felt (palpated) by placing your fingers gently over an artery that carotid artery in the neck or the radial artery in the wrist (fig. 16-7). although we can only fell the pulse in a few
of the body's arteries (those)