thready pulse

But fear was palpable, a thready pulse in the air.

What in the world is a thready pulse?

Pressing his ear to her breast, he was rewarded by the sound of a thready pulse.

He turned the man's bruised, battered head and felt his weak, thready pulse.

There was a faint, thready pulse and slight breath.

Suddenly he thought he felt a thready pulse, so faint it was virtually nonexistent.

The chart contained such gems of information as: "Weak, rapid, thready pulse."

A rapid, weak, thready pulse due to decreased circulation combined with tachycardia.

"Oh, Jesus:' she whispered, finding the weak, thready pulse with shaking fingertips.

Impossible for her to be alive; but she was breathing barely--and he managed to find a weak, thready pulse.

We felt her thready pulse, her heart thudding like an elephant's, six beats a minute, the hugeness of its animation.

Low and thready pulse, low blood pressure - a condition analogous to a faint, peripheral blood supply dilated.

"Absolute exhaustion--possibly mere hunger and fatigue," said I, with my finger on the thready pulse, where the stream of life trickled thin and small.

Not even the cruel beating of Kushiel's bronze-winged presence sounded in my ears, but only the thready pulse of my failing heart, blood beating in my ears, bidding a faint farewell.

The red dot of the laser sight settled onto a leaf six inches to the left of my head, and the thready pulse of fear in my chest turned into an icy white streak of terror.

He had almost certainly pulled him through the crisis -the faint thready pulse had strengthened this last hour, temperature had dropped, breathing was almost normal - but this triumph occupied only a remote corner of his mind: the rest was filled with dread.

The Device was wrapped hi the remains of his old Opener cloak in case it affected Himation's crew; it was heavy, and lately, it had become slightly warm to the touch; a faint resonance, a distant thready pulse of vibration, crawled beneath its skin.