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Definition of Arrhythmia
1. Noun. An abnormal rate of muscle contractions in the heart.
Generic synonyms: Cardiopathy, Heart Disease
Specialized synonyms: Flutter, Cantering Rhythm, Gallop Rhythm, Atrial Fibrillation, Bradycardia, Adams-stokes Syndrome, Atrioventricular Block, Heart Block, Stokes-adams Syndrome, Premature Ventricular Contraction, Pvc, Tachycardia, Ventricular Fibrillation
Derivative terms: Arrhythmic
Definition of Arrhythmia
1. Noun. An irregular heartbeat. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Arrhythmia
1. [n -S]
Medical Definition of Arrhythmia
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Arrhythmia
Literary usage of Arrhythmia
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Physical diagnosis by Richard Clarke Cabot (1912)
"arrhythmia. 1. Physiological or " Youthful" arrhythmia.—arrhythmia, or irregularity
in the force or rhythm of the heart-beat, is to a certain extent ..."
2. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1911)
"No portion of cardiac physiology and pathology has excited more interest and
controversy than has the subject of arrhythmia or irregularity of the heart. ..."
3. Differential Diagnosis and Treatment of Disease: A Text-book for by Augustus Caillé (1906)
"arrhythmia of the Heart We find disturbance of rhythm from many causes, eg, ...
arrhythmia of the heart may occur normally as an expression of the influence ..."
4. The Prophylaxis and Treatment of Internal Disease: Designed for the Use of by Frederick Forchheimer (1910)
"arrhythmia Here we are not concerned with the arrhythmia of organic heart ...
In the treatment of arrhythmia due to lesions of the central nervous system, ..."
5. Physical diagnosis by Wallace Dickinson Rose (1922)
"Since the arrhythmia in such cases arises at the sinus area it is called sinus
... The important point is to demonstrate vagus influence on the arrhythmia. ..."
6. A Text-book of the Practice of Medicine by James Meschter Anders (1915)
"To explain this variety of arrhythmia we have the so-called ''refractory ...
It is probable that the various forms of arrhythmia described below are due to ..."
7. Physical Diagnosis of Diseases of the Chest by Richard Clarke Cabot (1903)
"arrhythmia, 1. Physiological arrhythmia.—arrhythmia, or irregularity in the force
or rhythm of the heart-beat, is to a certain extent physiological. ..."
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