Long-time local landmarks include Gilroy Gardens Family Theme Park, along California State Route 152, just west of town, and Mount Madonna County Park, at Hecker Pass, about twelve miles west of town, off Highway 152.
Jan 11, '05. The apical pulse is the pulse heard at the apex of the heart (which is the pointed lower extremity of the heart) Yoou can hear the apical pulse by placing your stethescope at the 5th intercostal space (spaces between the ribs) on the left side just left of the sternum.
A heart sound heard directly over the apex of the heart by means of clinical use of a stethoscope. apical pulse. A pulse felt or heard over the part of the chest wall that lies over the apex of the heart. In healthy people this is roughly located at the left mid-clavicular line in the fourth intercostal space.