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Abnormally rapid heartbeat (over 100 beats per minute)
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tachycardia
Word definitions for tachycardia in dictionaries
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
A Tachycardia is the medical term as in Supraventricular tachycardia . Tachycardia may also refer to: Tachycardia: A Journal , an online book by Satsvarupa dasa Goswami
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A rapid resting heart rate, especially one above 100 beats per minute.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. abnormally rapid heartbeat (over 100 beats per minute)
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"rapid heartbeat," 1868, Modern Latin, coined 1867 by German-born physician Hermann Lebert (1813-1878) from tachy- "swift" + Latinized form of Greek kardia "heart" (see heart ).
Usage examples of tachycardia.
Caffeine, we now know, can bring with it, in sufficient quantity, restlessness, nervousness, excitement, insomnia, flushed face, diuresis, gastrointestinal disturbance, muscle twitching, rambling flow of thought and speech, tachycardia or cardiac arrhythmia, periods of inexhaustibility, psychomotor agitation, and several other of the well-known conditions of our accelerated times.
Maybe because it causes agranulocytosis, tachycardia, and seizure in most patients.
The technical term for the manner of death is supraventricular tachycardia.
The discomfort of paroxysmal tachycardia is increased by fear and anxiety and apprehension and nervousness, and I've got all of 'em on account of fools.
And anyhow he was over fifty years old and he had a chronic heart problem called paroxysmal tachycardia.