Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An abnormality in an otherwise normal rhythmic pattern, as of brain waves being recorded by an electroencephalograph.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In pathology, an occasional disturbance of rhythm.
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- noun A
disturbance to an otherwise normalrhythm (especially of theheart )
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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My first full day in Hanoi I awoke at 4 a.m., but for once I was grateful for circadian dysrhythmia, otherwise known as jet lag.
Tour of Hanoi 2010
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"I've been able to cut back on diuretic drugs by a third and cut another medicine for cardiac dysrhythmia by half."
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The most likely would be something in the heart producing a cardiac dysrhythmia.
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WECHT: It could be pure drugs or it could be drugs related to a cardiac dysrhythmia.
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I also believe that those drugs, which are known to have the specific propensity to precipitate a cardiac dysrhythmia, I think that the drugs in Daniel Smith's case did exactly that, and that is why that boy died so suddenly and seemingly inexplicably at the time.
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You have got methadone, Lexapro and Zoloft -- some question of a cardiac dysrhythmia associated with those drugs.
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And, by the way, there's a very specific cardiac dysrhythmia, (INAUDIBLE), French, which has come to be known to be especially associated with antidepressants.
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BRIAN CABELL, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): The death certificate for Nathaniel Jones will list cardiac dysrhythmia, another term for cardiac arrest, as the official cause of death.
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BRIAN CABELL, CNN CORRESPONDENT: The official cause of death, cardiac dysrhythmia.
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QUESTION: Did you say the cause was dysrhythmia, did I understand you to say that?
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