Definitions for tachycardia

tachycardia tach·y·car·di·a

Spelling: [tak-i-kahr-dee-uh]
IPA: /ˌtæk ɪˈkɑr di ə/

Tachycardia is a 11 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 22 points.

You can make 375 anagrams from letters in tachycardia (aaaccdhirty).

Definitions for tachycardia

noun

  1. excessively rapid heartbeat.

Origin of tachycardia

First recorded in 1885-90; tachy- + -cardia

Examples for tachycardia

Consequently the convulsions, tachycardia, and coma had to be ignored.

tachycardia is the name applied to a more or less permanent increase in the rate of the heart-beat.

But, as I rose, I suddenly felt acute pain along the sternum; at the same time began a strong crisis of tachycardia.

In tachycardia there is an irritation of the accelerator nerves to the heart, in brachycardia of the inhibitory nerves.

Bradycardia or abnormal slowness of the heart-beat, is the converse of tachycardia.

I afterwards had periodical attacks of intermittence but never any tachycardia, at least none that lasted more than a few seconds.

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