arrhythmia Path.
(əˈrɪθmɪə)
[mod.L., f. Gr. ἀρρυθµία: see arrhythmy.]
Want of rhythm or regularity; spec. of the pulse.
| 1888 F. P. Foster Illustr. Med. Dict. I. 392/1 Arrhythmia, lack of rhythm. 1907 Practitioner LXXIX. 492 Note the cardiac arrhythmia. Ibid. 694 Various types of arrhythmia of the heart's action. 1961 Lancet 22 July 185/1 The sixth patient had complained only of occasional arrhythmia. 1966 Ibid. 24 Dec. 1389/1 Propranolol..has been used in the treatment of cardiac arrhythmias. |