stress test
noun
: an electrocardiographic test of heart function before, during, and after a controlled period of increasingly strenuous exercise (as on a treadmill)
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The Federal Reserve releases results of its annual bank stress test.
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Bryan Mena, CNN, 23 June 2024
The Cardiac Cats seem determined to give their fans the ultimate stress test.
—Adam H. Beasley, Miami Herald, 19 June 2024
Researchers utilized ultrasound technology to observe blood flow through the brachial artery in the upper arm during a stress test.
—Sandra Rose Salathe, Flow Space, 18 June 2024
According to the complaint, James Griswold went to Advanced Cardiovascular Specialists on July 1, 2014, for a nuclear stress test.
—Ed Stannard, Hartford Courant, 10 Apr. 2024
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Bryan Mena, CNN, 23 June 2024
The Cardiac Cats seem determined to give their fans the ultimate stress test.
—Adam H. Beasley, Miami Herald, 19 June 2024
Researchers utilized ultrasound technology to observe blood flow through the brachial artery in the upper arm during a stress test.
—Sandra Rose Salathe, Flow Space, 18 June 2024
According to the complaint, James Griswold went to Advanced Cardiovascular Specialists on July 1, 2014, for a nuclear stress test.
—Ed Stannard, Hartford Courant, 10 Apr. 2024
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