What Is a Normal Heart Rate for Healthy Adults at Rest

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Essay

What is a normal heart rate for healthy adults at rest, and what neural inputs contribute to the achievement of that range? How is heart rate affected when all nervous system input to the heart is blocked, and why is this effect seen?

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Definitions:

Carrier Pigeons

Birds historically used to transport messages across long distances before the advent of electronic communication.

Probability Of Arriving

Refers to the chance or likelihood that something will reach a particular destination within a given period.

Standard Deviation

A measure of the amount of variation or dispersion in a set of values.

MTBF

Mean Time Between Failures, a reliability metric that measures the average time between system failures in a process or product.