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Definition of Cardiac 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
Medical Definition of Cardiac arrhythmia
1. A disturbance the electrical activity of the heart that manifests as an abnormality in heart rate or heart rhythm. Patients with a cardiac arrhythmia may experience a wide variety of symptoms ranging from palpitations to fainting. (27 Sep 1997)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cardiac Arrhythmia
Literary usage of Cardiac arrhythmia
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1911)
"The Keith-Flack Node in the Production of cardiac arrhythmia.—The recent
investigations of Walter Koch upon the anatomy and pathology of the bundle of ..."
2. Diseases of the chest and the principles of physical diagnosis by George William Norris, Henry Robert Murray Landis (1917)
"CHAPTER XV cardiac arrhythmia Recent additions to our knowledge of cardiac anatomy
and physiology have thrown much valuable light upon our conception of ..."
3. Blood Pressure in General Practice by Percival Nicholson (1913)
"cardiac arrhythmia.—There are many cases of arrhythmia purely functional in
character, but there are also a number with true organic disease. ..."
4. Thyroid and thymus by André Crotti (1918)
"At any rate, be it what it may, a constant cardiac arrhythmia is of bad prognosis;
... Therefore we must consider cardiac arrhythmia, even slight, ..."
5. Handbook of Severe Disability: A Text for Rehabilitation Counselors, Other edited by Walter C. Stolov, Michael R. Clowers (2000)
"These hidden disabilities in heart disease are those related to heart failure,
pain, abnormalities of heart rhythm (cardiac arrhythmia), and psychosocial ..."
6. Progressive Medicine by Hobart Amory Hare (1902)
"cardiac arrhythmia. Few conditions cause greater alarm to the patient, and at
times greater anxiety to the physician, who is accustomed to regard it as a ..."
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