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adj
Of, relating to, or affecting the rate of muscular contraction, especially of the heart.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
Topics: medicine, physiology, sciences
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
History
From chrono- (“referring to time”) + -tropic (“affecting, changing”), from Ancient Greek χρόνος (khrónos, “time”) + τρόπος (trópos, “turn, direction, way”) + -ικός (-ikós, “-ic”, adjectival suffix).
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