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Definition of Arrhythmias
1. arrhythmia [n] - See also: arrhythmia
Medical Definition of Arrhythmias
1. Abnormal heart rhythms. The heartbeats may be too slow, too rapid, irregular, or too early. Rapid arrhythmias (greater than 100 beats per minute) are called tachycardias. Slow arrhythmias (slower than 60 beats per minute) are called bradycardias. Irregular heart rhythms are called fibrillations (as in atrial fibrillation). When a single heartbeat occurs earlier than normal, it is called a premature contraction. (12 Dec 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Arrhythmias
Literary usage of Arrhythmias
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Clinical Cardiology by Selian Neuhof (1917)
"We shall now treat of those abnormal mechanisms known as cardiac arrhythmias and
irregularities. AE Cohn has succinctly grouped the arrhythmias as coming ..."
2. Diseases of the chest and the principles of physical diagnosis by George William Norris, Henry Robert Murray Landis, Edward Bell Krumbhaar (1920)
"THE CARDIAC arrhythmias As ... different types of cardiac arrhythmias have been
set forth in the previous chapter, it will be necessary here only to ..."
3. A Lifelong Passion: Nicholas and Alexandra: Their Own Story by Andrei Maylunas (2005)
"Asthma cardiale and acute arrhythmias were slightly more frequent early complications
and cardial decompensation was a slightly more frequent late ..."
4. Medical Diagnosis for the Student and Practitioner by Charles Lyman Greene (1917)
"CARDIAC arrhythmias of the electrical wane accompanying the contraction of the
... arrhythmias usually associated with retained fundamental rhythm, ..."
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