Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A rapid heart rate, especially one above 100 beats per minute in an adult.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. In pathology, excessive frequency of the pulse.
Wiktionary
WordNet 3.0
- n. abnormally rapid heartbeat (over 100 beats per minute)
Etymologies
- From Ancient Greek ταχύς (takhus, "swift") and καρδία (kardia, "heart"). (Wiktionary)
- tachy- + Greek kardiā, heart; see cardia. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“That causes the heart to race, a condition called tachycardia, as it tries to get more blood to the head.”
“Disney's Hannah Montana star and pop-country singer, Miley Cyrus, revealed in her autobiography Miles to Go, that she has a heart condition called tachycardia,”
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“Cyrus has a condition called tachycardia, which causes her heart rate to speed up.”
“Singer and 'Hannah Montana' star Miley Cyrus has revealed that she is suffering from a heart condition called tachycardia and luckily for her and her fans, the disease is not life threatening.”
“JONATHAN REINER, GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL: In the Electrophysiology Laboratory, a very short but fast-run of the kind of tachycardia fast heartbeats that we were looking for was able to be induced.”
“Kisch has described, as a cardiac neurosis of sexual origin, a pathological tachycardia which is an exaggeration of the physiological quick heart of sexual excitement.”
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“This medicine had been previously banned in Spain and Australia, countries that have documented Sibutramine's side effects, such as tachycardia, arrhythmia and infarctions.”
“The sympathetic nervous system, which regulates tissues that aren’t under our voluntary control, may respond to heart failure by increasing the rate of the heartbeat, a condition known as tachycardia.”
“The pop star / actress reveals in her autobiography Miles to Go that she has tachycardia, meaning her heart rate exceeds the range of a normal resting heart rate.”
“Miles to Go that she has tachycardia, meaning her heart rate exceeds the range of a normal resting heart rate.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘tachycardia’.
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Fictional music genres
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cardio-, cardi-, -cardia
of or relating to the heart
cardiogram, cardiologist, cardiac, cardiac arrest, cardiology, cardiograph, cardiothoracic, tachycardia
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JLaughWork's Words
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tacho-, tachy-
relating to speed; rapid
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Lolita
Words to remember from Nabokov's "Lolita"
concordance, limned, lurid, puerility, variorum, perspicacious, exigency, acrostic, solipsism, mnemosyne, involution, fatidic and 227 more...
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Loxodont's list
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Just 'cause I like 'em, T
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[H]ouse
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Winter 12
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Medical terms I learned watching "House"
cushing's syndrome, arrhythmia, munchausen's synd..., vicodin, nephrology, vasculitis, differential diag..., tachycardia, ketamine, brain aneurysm, celiec disease, addison's disease and 32 more...
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Health Slayer Industry
Well, it's not all bad. But too much is.
analgesia, analgesic, resveratrol, tachycardia, tachycardic, polyphenols, allele, allelic, tzaraath, reuptake, serotonin, nostrum and 86 more...
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SocialWorker32's Words
proliferous, loquacious, melancholic, pugnacious, moxie, ginormous, rudimentary, pusillanimous, quagmire, transphobia, voracity, veracity and 27 more...
Tweets
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thesaraheffect (paroxysmal) supraventricular tachycardia! Unfortunately, a 4 week old baby introduced me to this word, 200+ bpm! Sep 26, 2009