brady-
comb. form of Gr. βραδύ-ς slow, as in bradyˈcardia [Gr. καρδία heart], slowness of the pulse; bradykinin (-ˈkaɪnɪn) [Gr. κίν-ησις motion + -in1], a polypeptide stimulating the action of the visceral muscles; bradyˈphrasia [Gr. ϕράσις speech], slowness of speech due to mental defect or disease; ˈbradyseism [seism], a slow rise and fall of the earth's crust.
| 1890 Billings Med. Dict. I. 182/1 Bradycardia. 1908 J. Mackenzie Dis. Heart 133 True bradycardia..only occurs when all the chambers of the heart participate in the slow action. 1965 J. Pollitt Depression & its Treatment ii. 13 Bradycardia. |
| 1949 M. Rocha e Silva et al. in Amer. Jrnl. Physiol. CLVI. 261 (title) Bradykinin, a hypotensive and smooth muscle stimulating factor released from plasma globulin by snake venom and by trypsin. |
| 1878 J. A. McCreery tr. von Ziemssen's Cycl. Med. XIV. 816 We find bradyphrasia and paraphrasia developed in a similar manner in conditions of morbid hebetude and intellectual weakness. |
| 1896 Daily News 11 Feb. 6/2 The slow movements, or bradyseisms..were those which had resulted in the formation of continents. 1959 A. A. G. Schieferdecker Geol. Nomencl. 196/2 Bradyseism, slow movement of the ground especially recognizable by an upheaval, subsidence or a shifting of shore line Ibid. 268/1 Bradyseism, slow vertical movements of the earth's crust, caused by volcanic action. |