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n. (plural of palpitation English)
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Palpitation is a perceived abnormality of the heartbeat characterized by awareness of heart muscle contractions in the chest: hard beats, fast beats, irregular beats, and/or pauses. It is both a symptom reported by the patient and a medical diagnosis. Palpitation is frequently associated with anxiety and does not necessarily indicate a structural or functional abnormality of the heart, but it can be a symptom arising from an objectively rapid or irregular heartbeat. Palpitation can be intermittent and of variable frequency and duration, or continuous. Associated symptoms include dizziness, shortness of breath, sweating, headaches, and chest pain.
Palpitation may be associated with coronary heart disease, hyperthyroidism, diseases affecting cardiac muscle such as hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, diseases causing low blood oxygen such as asthma and emphysema; kidney disease; low levels of brain serotonin; blood loss, and pain; drugs such as antidepressants, alcohol, nicotine, caffeine, cocaine, and amphetamines; electrolyte imbalances of magnesium, potassium and calcium; and deficiencies of nutrients such as taurine, arginine, and iron.
Usage examples of "palpitations".
He reviewed the appropriate herbs to relieve palpitations, whitehorn, adonis, glovecap, tansy, aconite, and decided on the latter, the old reliable root.
Suggested treatment was febrifuge rather than a diaphoretic, judicious use of aconite for palpitations, willow salic or fellis juice for headache, comfrey, tussilago, or preferred local cough remedy.
To psychoanalyze my grandmother’s heart palpitations: they were the manifestations of grief.
In a sense she began to live in reverse, too, because she suffered the heart palpitations of her youth.
He lay for what seemed a very long time and, although the ache in his skull appreciably lessened, the palpitations did not.
He reviewed the appropriate herbs to relieve palpitations: whitehom, adonis, glovecap, tansy, aco nite, and decided on the latter, the old reliable root.
Suggested treatment was febrifuge rather than a diaporetic, judicious use of aconite for palpitations, willowsalic or fellis juice for head ache, comfrey, tussilago, or preferred local cough remedy.
I got blue balls and palpitations, but I saw a lot of outdoors, and nobody got hurt, and.
This expansion of the nostrils, as well as the snorting, and the palpitations of the heart, are actions which have become firmly associated during a long series of generations with the emotion of terror.
Once, when the palpitations were particularly frightening, my doctor arranged for me to have an electrocardiogram, but the results provided no explanation.