cardiac rhythm
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- noun
- /ˈkɑrdɪæk ˈrɪðəm/
- Specialized
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ritmo cardiaco
- Doctors monitor the cardiac rhythm to ensure that the heart is beating properly during surgery.
- a normal cardiac rhythm
- cardiac rhythm management
- restore cardiac rhythm
Examples
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The restored cardiac rhythm is maintained with medication or an electronic device called an automatic implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (AICD).
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In summary, evolving technologies for cardiac rhythm monitoring will enable improved collection of heart rhythm function during drug development.
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Most notably, the company performed better than analysts expected in its cardiac rhythm management business.
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Cardiac rhythm safety can be assessed based on placebo-adjusted occurrences of these types of events.
Academic text (2016) -
Periodically, a transient cardiac rhythm would assert itself on the monitor, giving us a bit of hope.
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These warning signs include change in mental status, change in vital signs, hypoxemia, cardiac rhythm changes, abnormal laboratory studies, chest pain, and shortness of breath.
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On cardiac rhythm patterns, high, peaked T waves and ST segment depression occur along with increased QRS duration and PR intervals.
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Cardiac rhythm monitoring during drug development is of greatest value when pretreatment monitoring is incorporated to help discern background arrhythmia versus drug-induced proarrhythmia.
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Hyperkalemia from the muscle damage will also create premature ventricular contractions (PVCs), which indicate cardiac rhythm changes.
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Patients with irregular cardiac rhythms may require specialized treatment to restore normal heart function.
Synonyms
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The regular beat you feel in your wrist or neck from the heart
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The regular movement or sound of the heart as it pumps blood
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A regular pattern of beats the heart makes when it pumps blood
Events in the heart from one beat to the next, including the upper and lower chambers tightening and relaxing
A regular throbbing in an artery when the heart pumps blood
How Regular
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly compositional from 'cardiac' (relating to the heart) and 'rhythm' (a regular pattern of beats), so a learner who knows both words can infer it denotes the heart's pattern of beating. The term is somewhat technical in register but follows straightforward morphological logic found across many languages, making it transparent to learners who know the constituents.
Etymology
Cardiac rhythm comes from a simple image: cardiac means 'heart' and rhythm means a regular beat, like a clock or drum that keeps time. That's why it refers to the pattern of the heart's 'beats'.