PALPITATION

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

I. (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A shaky motion

Example:

the shaking of his fingers as he lit his pipe

Synonyms:

palpitation; quiver; quivering; shakiness; shaking; trembling; vibration

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("palpitation" is a kind of...):

motion (a state of change)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "palpitation"):

tremolo ((music) a tremulous effect produced by rapid repetition of a single tone or rapid alternation of two tones)

tremor (shaking or trembling (usually resulting from weakness or stress or disease))

Derivation:

palpitate (shake with fast, tremulous movements)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A rapid and irregular heart beat

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("palpitation" is a kind of...):

symptom ((medicine) any sensation or change in bodily function that is experienced by a patient and is associated with a particular disease)

Derivation:

palpitate (beat rapidly)

palpitate (cause to throb or beat rapidly)

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Context examples:

It is characterized by a severe and rapid onset of symptoms that may include chest pain, often radiating to the left arm and left side of the neck, dyspnea, sweating, and palpitations.

(Acute Myocardial Infarction, NCI Thesaurus)

These can be accompanied by physical symptoms including chest pain, heart palpitations, shortness of breath, dizziness or abdominal distress.

(The Mechanism of Panic Attacks, NIH, US)

Clinical presentation includes headaches, palpitations, chest and abdominal pain, hypertension, fever, and tremor.

(Adrenal Gland Pheochromocytoma, NCI Thesaurus)

Pheochromocytomas are usually benign (not cancer) but can cause high blood pressure, pounding headaches, heart palpitations, flushing of the face, nausea, and vomiting.

(Adrenal Gland Pheochromocytoma, NCI Dictionary)

Specific symptoms include: • Difficulty walking • Muscle weakness • Speech problems • Involuntary eye movements • Scoliosis (curving of the spine to one side) • Heart palpitations, from the heart disease which can happen along with Friedreich's ataxia

(Friedreich's Ataxia, NIH: National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke)

Signs and symptoms of anemia may include pallor of the skin and mucous membranes, shortness of breath, palpitations of the heart, soft systolic murmurs, lethargy, and fatigability.

(Anemia, NCI Thesaurus)

Symptoms include heart palpitations, sweating, anxiety, lightheadedness, hyperpnea, anxiety, and blurred vision.

(Orthostatic Intolerance, NCI Thesaurus)

Hamilton Depression Rating Scale 17 Item (HAMD-17) Anxiety somatic: physiological concomitants of anxiety such as gastro-intestinal (dry mouth, wind, indigestion, diarrhea, cramps, belching), cardiovascular (palpitations, headaches), respiratory (hyperventilation, sighing), urinary frequency, sweating.

(HAMD-17 - Somatic Anxiety, NCI Thesaurus)

I am sorry to hear you say so, sir; but I assure you, excepting those little nervous head-aches and palpitations which I am never entirely free from anywhere, I am quite well myself; and if the children were rather pale before they went to bed, it was only because they were a little more tired than usual, from their journey and the happiness of coming.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

An episode of intense fear accompanied by symptoms such as heart palpitations, sweating and chills or hot flushes , a sensation of dyspnea, chest pain, abdominal distress, depersonalization, fear of going crazy, and fear of dying.