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Definition of Premature ventricular contraction
1. Noun. Irregularity of cardiac rhythm; recurrent occurrences can be a precursor of ventricular fibrillation.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Premature Ventricular Contraction
Literary usage of Premature ventricular contraction
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Modern Aspects of the Circulation in Health and Disease by Carl John Wiggers (1915)
"B. premature ventricular contraction» or extra-systoles due to an excessive
irritability of the ventricle or the presence of abnormal stimuli. ..."
2. Diseases of the heart by James Mackenzie (1908)
"... ventricular contraction with no response to the auricular systole after the
premature ventricular contraction, which accounts for the long pause. ..."
3. American Medicine (1920)
"The large waves, due to a premature ventricular contraction, are in. the opposite
... This record shows a premature ventricular contraction occurring after ..."
4. Clinical Disorders of the Heart Beat: A Handbook for Practitioners and Students by Thomas Lewis (1920)
"A diagrammatic representation of the disturbance produced by a premature ventricular
contraction (p). The auricle beats regularly throughout. ..."
5. Monographic Medicine by Albion Walter Hewlett, Henry Leopold Elsner (1916)
"The premature ventricular contraction, as well as the lengthened diastolic pause
that follows it, are easily recognizable on the cardiogram of the apex beat ..."
6. The Oxford Medicine by Henry Asbury Christian, James Mackenzie (1920)
"It so happens in this condition that the auricle is often contracting at the same
time that the premature ventricular contraction is going on, ..."
7. Transactions of the Association of American Physicians by Association of American Physicians (1899)
"For example, if there had been no premature ventricular contraction (c) in Fig.
1—ie, had the ventricle relaxed and remained quiescent until it was aroused ..."
8. Functional Pathology of Internal Diseases by Albion Walter Hewlett (1916)
"The premature ventricular contraction Is Followed by a Premature Auricular
Contraction, Owing to a Transmission of the Stimulus Backwards over the His ..."
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