Definition of arrhythmia
:an alteration in rhythm of the heartbeat either in time or force
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Over the course of his four decades on earth, Coltrane lived and breathed to create jazz saturated with dissonance and arrhythmia and tenacity—raw jazz, powerful jazz, jazz hundreds of stories tall.
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The tetrodotoxin is up to 1,200 times more poisonous than that of cyanide, and can cause deadening of the tongue and lips, dizziness, vomiting, arrhythmia, difficulty breathing, muscle paralysis and, if left untreated, death.
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He was admitted after doctors detected an arrhythmia when reading a monitor the manager has been wearing for several weeks.
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Francona has been hospitalized and undergoing tests since Tuesday, when he was admitted after doctors detected an arrhythmia when reading a monitor the manager has been wearing for several weeks.
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The procedure is used to correct a cardiac arrhythmia, otherwise known as an irregular heartbeat.
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Fruit flies have been used to model congenital heart disease in humans, as well as cardiomyopathy and arrhythmia, among other afflictions.
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The main concern for AFIB in high heat is dehydration, which can trigger an arrhythmia.
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Sandberg’s husband, SurveyMonkey CEO Dave Goldberg, died on the treadmill of a heart arrhythmia at age 47 while the two were vacationing in Mexico in May 2015.
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Origin and Etymology of arrhythmia
New Latin, from Greek, lack of rhythm, from arrhythmos unrhythmical, from a- + rhythmos rhythm
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