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extra beat

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extra beat
Etymology: L, extra, outside; AS, beatan
an extra heart contraction. It is indicated by a premature atrial, junctional, or ventricular complex on an electrocardiogram.


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Complaints such as lightheadedness, dizziness, quivering, shortness of breath, chest discomfort, heart fluttering or pounding, and forceful or painful extra beats are commonly reported with a variety of arrhythmias.
Three extra beats per minute is significant, and delivers more oxygen to the brain.
We note that in the recorded performance of the poem it sounds an extra beat with a double echo of "tracks" closing the stanza: in the pounding dance to be free to bust open a window crash upon a door strip the crust of confinement seep truth, through cracks through the routing rhythms of the musical tracts tracks tracks tracks (emphasis mine lines 9-14) This emphasis on "tracks" calls attention to a dynamic relation of meanings and relays in the process a multidimensional message.
 
 
 
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