palpitation

Under this authority the term palpitation may be employed to mark those morbid motions which chiefly characterise this disease, notwithstanding that this term has been anticipated by Sauvages, as characteristic of another species of tremor [7].

An Essay on the Shaking Palsy James Parkinson

A heart palpitation occurs when a person feels that his or her heart is beating irregularly.

Heart Palpitations 2009

In connexion with the heart there are three phenomena, which, though apparently of the same nature, are really not so, namely palpitation, pulsation, and respiration.

On youth and old age, on life and death, on breathing 2002

In connexion with the heart there are three phenomena, which, though apparently of the same nature, are really not so, namely palpitation, pulsation, and respiration.

On youth and old age, on life and death, on breathing 2002

I wake up at the slightest noise in the night, and, having some nerves of my own, usually get a case of heart palpitation, which is deucedly unpleasant.

Rival Pitchers of Oakdale Morgan Scott

Thus, in connection with the heart, its natural pulsation is energy, whereas its palpitation, which is an excessive and unnatural movement, is passion and not energy.

NPNF2-09. Hilary of Poitiers, John of Damascus 1898

You see at once a chance for constriction of the aorta by the muscles under which it passes, causing without doubt much of the disease known as palpitation of the heart, which is only a bouncing back of the blood that has been stopped at the crura.

Philosophy of Osteopathy 1872

It is connected with the main part of the mountain by a narrow ridge, barely broad enough for a mule-path, with treeless slopes on either hand, so steep, that, on our return, the _Teniente_ preferred risking an attack of "palpitation" to riding along its crest.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 30, April, 1860 Various

And in all cases emotional reaction may set in with anxieties, and bodily symptoms such as palpitation of the heart may result, whenever an effort is made to disregard the nervous fear.

Psychotherapy Hugo M��nsterberg 1889

Another kind of palpitation may sometimes arise from the retrograde motions of the heart, as in fear.

Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life Erasmus Darwin 1766