Arrhythmia

Definition: Arrhythmia

Arrhythmia

Noun

1. An abnormal rate of muscle contractions in the heart.

Specialty Definition: Arrhythmia

Domain	Definition
Aerospace	Absence of rhythm, as, for example, in heart beat. (references)
Health	Any variation from the normal rhythm or rate of the heart beat. (references)
Medicine	An alteration in the rhythm of the heartbeat either in time or force that is of functional or organic origin. Source: European Union. (references)
	Any significant deviation from normal cardiac rhythm. It may be due to an abnormality in rate or regularity of the heart beat. The term arrhythmia also encompasses any disturbance in the sequence of a normal atrial activation coupled at a physiologic interval to a normal ventricular activation. Source: European Union. (references)
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Synonym: Arrhythmia

Synonym: cardiac arrhythmia (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Arrhythmia

English words defined with "arrhythmia": beta blocker, beta-adrenergic blocker, beta-adrenergic blocking agent ♦ calcium blocker, calcium-channel blocker ♦ digitoxin, digoxin ♦ Lanoxin, Lopressor ♦ metoprolol. (references)

Specialty definitions using "arrhythmia": Accelerated Idioventricular Rhythm, arrhythmogenic, atrial flutter ♦ Bupranolol ♦ endless loop tachycardia ♦ Long QT Syndrome ♦ pacemaker-mediated tachycardia, Parasystole ♦ SA exit block, sinoatrial exit block, sinoatrial rhythm, sinus arrest, sinus nodal discharge rate, sinus pause, sinus rhythm. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Arrhythmia

Domain	Title
References	Arrhythmia Research Technology, Inc: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference) (more reference examples)

Books	Arrhythmia (reference) Arrhythmia Interpretation: ACLS Preparation and Clinical Approach (reference) Arrhythmia Management in Chagas' Disease (reference) ARRHYTHMIA RESEARCH TECHNOLOGY, INC.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis [DOWNLOAD: ADOBE READER] (reference) Arrhythmia Treatment and Therapy: Evaluation of Clinical Trial Evidence (reference) (more book examples)

Music	Arrhythmia (reference) Arrhythmia, Vol. 3 (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
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Non-Fiction Usage: Arrhythmia

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		An arrhythmia is a change in the regular beat of the heart. (references)
		Many times, there is no recognizable cause of an arrhythmia. (references)
		With an electrical shock, it immediately disrupts a deadly arrhythmia. (references)
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Spoken Usage: Arrhythmia

Speaker	Phrase(s)
Robert Atkins	We don't know, but I know that I had an infection in my heart, and it caused an arrhythmia and so it must have been an arrhythmia that sort of took off, and that was it.
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Usage Frequency: Arrhythmia

"Arrhythmia" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 86.21% of the time. "Arrhythmia" is used about 29 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	86.21%	25	69,787
Noun (proper)	13.79%	4	175,879
Total	100.00%	29	N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Usage in Company Names: Arrhythmia

Country	Name
USA	Arrhythmia Research Technology, Inc
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.

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Expressions: Arrhythmia

Expression using "arrhythmia": cardiac arrhythmia. Additional references.
Hypenated Usage
	Ending with "arrhythmia": Anti-Arrhythmia.
	Containing "arrhythmia": Anti-Arrhythmia Agents.
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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Arrhythmia

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
arrhythmia	183
cardiac arrhythmia	32
sinus arrhythmia	29
heart arrhythmia	27
respiratory sinus arrhythmia	15
arrhythmia treatment	6
anastomosis angina angiogenesis annuloplasty aortic arrhythmia artery athersclerosis atrial beating cabg cardiac cardiac cardiomyopathy cardiothoracic cardiovascular carpentier coronary coronary cosgrove defibrillator fibrillation graft heart infarction ischemia mesenchymal midcab mitral morphogenetic myocardial myogenesis opcab pacemaker pump saphenous septal stem stent stented thoracoscopic tmr vad valvuloplasty ventricular	6
ventricular arrhythmia	6
fetal arrhythmia	4
arrhythmia symptom	3
arrhythmia interpretation	3
arrhythmia supraventricular tachycardia	2
arrhythmia pediatric	2
arrhythmia canine	2
arrhythmia malignant	2
arrhythmia medication	2
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Modern Translation: Arrhythmia

Language		Translations for "arrhythmia"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Chinese		心率失常. (various references)

Danish		arytmi. (various references)

Dutch		aritmie. (various references)

French		arythmie (f), arythmie. (various references)

German		Arrhythmie. (various references)

Italian		aritmia (arhythmia). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		結滞 (intermittent pulse), 不整脈 (irregular pulse). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		ふせいみゃく (irregular pulse), けったい (intermittent pulse, rare, uncommon). (various references)

Korean		부� �맥. (various references)

Pig Latin		arrhythmiaay

Portuguese		arritmia. (various references)

Russian		аритмия (arrhythmias). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		aritmija. (various references)

Spanish		arritmia. (various references)

Ukrainian		аритмія. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Arrhythmia

Derivations
	Words beginning with "arrhythmia": arrhythmias. (additional references)
	Words ending with "arrhythmia": tachyarrhythmia. (additional references)
	Words containing "arrhythmia": tachyarrhythmias. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Arrhythmia" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: arhythmia, arithm, arrhythemia, arrithmia, arryhythmia, arrythmia. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Arrhythmia"

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "arrhythmia" (pronounced eri"thmēu)
3	-m ē u	academia, anemia, Bohemia, bulimia, hypoglycemia, hypothermia, ischemia, Lamia, leukemia, Macadamia, uremia.
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Anagrams: Arrhythmia

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-h-h-i-m-r-r-t-y"
	-2 letters: arythmia.
	-4 letters: amrita, martyr, rarity, rhythm, tamari, thairm, thiram.
	-5 letters: airth, amity, arhat, array, atria, hairy, harry, ihram, maria, marry, mirth, myrrh, rayah, rhyta, riata, tarry, tharm, thymi, tiara, tryma, yirth.
	Words containing the letters "a-a-h-h-i-m-r-r-t-y"
	+1 letter: arrhythmias.
	+4 letters: antiarrhythmic.
	+5 letters: antiarrhythmics, tachyarrhythmia.
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