Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun The restoration of the heartbeat to normal functioning by the application of electrical shock or by the use of medication.

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  • noun The treatment of cardiac arrhythmia, either with medication or by use of a machine (a cardioverter) that delivers a controlled electric current.

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[cardio– + (con)version.]

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Examples

  • To correct your condition, doctors may be able to reset your heart to its regular rhythm (sinus rhythm) using a procedure called cardioversion, depending on the underlying cause of atrial fibrillation and how long you've had it.

    Find Me A Cure 2010

  • A well-placed source tells Us the actor, 57, underwent "cardioversion," a procedure that converts an abnormal heart rhythm back to a normal rhythm, on Wednesday night.

    Celebrity Mound 2009

  • Treatments include drugs and cardioversion, a procedure that delivers an electrical shock to the heart into a normal rhythm as well as ablation, mostly with devices that aren't specifically approved by the FDA to treat the condition.

    FDA Panel Rejects Medtronic Heart Device Jennifer Corbett Dooren 2011

  • But she did not respond to any of the various medications and she received cardioversion several times a day during her first month of life.

    A Book of Miracles Jack Canfield 2010

  • But she did not respond to any of the various medications and she received cardioversion several times a day during her first month of life.

    A Book of Miracles Jack Canfield 2010

  • But she did not respond to any of the various medications and she received cardioversion several times a day during her first month of life.

    A Book of Miracles Jack Canfield 2010

  • During that time she had her first electric shock cardioversion.

    Atrial fibrillation is easy to find, but evidence on how best to treat it isn't 2010

  • But she did not respond to any of the various medications and she received cardioversion several times a day during her first month of life.

    A Book of Miracles Jack Canfield 2010

  • But she did not respond to any of the various medications and she received cardioversion several times a day during her first month of life.

    A Book of Miracles Jack Canfield 2010

  • There is a one in 8,000 chance that there can be a stroke or death from the cardioversion.

    D. Brad Wright: Just Plain Tired: The Professor's Tale 2009

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