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Definition of Palpitations
1. palpitation [n] - See also: palpitation
Medical Definition of Palpitations
1. Unpleasant sensations of irregular and/or forceful beating of the heart. In some patients with palpitations, no heart disease or abnormal heart rhythms can be found. In others, palpitations result from abnormal heart rhythms (arrhythmias). Arrhythmias refer to heartbeats that are too slow, too rapid, irregular, or too early. (12 Dec 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Palpitations
Literary usage of Palpitations
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.) (1875)
"Method of instantaneously arresting Palpitations of the Heart. ... August 21st)
a method by which he asserts that palpitations of the heart, not due to any ..."
2. Homœopathic Therapeutics by Samuel Lilienthal (1890)
"Nervous palpitations; melancholic feeling about heart, with desire to take a ...
Violent palpitations from incarcerated flatus ; angina pectoris and spasms ..."
3. The Lancet (1842)
"For four months she had been complaining of palpitations, some cough, and other
symptoms, not sufficient to force her to leave her service, as I understand; ..."
4. An Index of differential diagnosis of main symptoms by Herbert French (1912)
"Tobacco is a very important cause for palpitations in a patient who may seem to be
... These patients may have palpitations at any time of the day or night, ..."
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