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CARDIAC RHYTHM
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The rhythm of a beating heart
Synonyms:
cardiac rhythm; heart rhythm
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("cardiac rhythm" is a kind of...):
regular recurrence; rhythm (recurring at regular intervals)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "cardiac rhythm"):
atrioventricular nodal rhythm; nodal rhythm (the normal cardiac rhythm when the heart is controlled by the atrioventricular node)
Context examples:
An electrocardiographic finding in which the cardiac rhythm is controlled by an electrical impulse from an artificial cardiac pacemaker.
(Paced Rhythm, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)
Issue associated with device features that are designed to respond to a physical stimulus (temperature, illumination, motion, cardiac rhythms) that do not transmit a resulting signal for interpretation or measurement.
(Medical Device Sensing Issue, Food and Drug Administration)
A cardiac rhythm characterized by a regular sinus/atrial rhythm with intermittent nonconducted P waves.
(Mobitz II, NCI Thesaurus)
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