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noun
An irregular heartbeat; a lack of a regular pulse.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
A disease entity involving such beats, such as atrial fibrillation, ventricular tachycardia, AV nodal reentrant tachycardia, or others.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
an abnormal rate of muscle contractions in the heart
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: cardiac arrhythmia
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: heart disease, cardiopathy
Narrower terms: flutter, gallop rhythm, cantering rhythm, atrial fibrillation, bradycardia, heart block, Adams-Stokes syndrome, Stokes-Adams syndrome, atrioventricular block, premature ventricular contraction, PVC, tachycardia, ventricular fibrillation
History
Borrowed from New Latin arrhythmia, from Ancient Greek ἀρρυθμία (arrhuthmía), equivalent to a- + rhythm + -ia.
Across languages
27 source translations are retained for this English entry.
