Tachycardia Definition

tăkĭ-kärdē-ə
noun
An abnormally fast heartbeat.
Webster's New World
A rapid heart rate, especially one above 100 beats per minute in an adult.
American Heritage Medicine

Other Word Forms of Tachycardia

Noun

Singular:
tachycardia
Plural:
tachycardias

Origin of Tachycardia

  • From Ancient Greek ταχύς (takhus, “swift") and καρδία (kardia, “heart").

    From Wiktionary

  • tachy– Greek kardiā heart cardia

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Tachycardia Sentence Examples

  • First of all ventricular tachycardia - tachycardia is a term used to describe a heart rate above 100 beats per minute.

  • Bradycardia is an irregularly slow heart rhythm, and tachycardia is an irregularly fast heart rhythm.

  • The drug has a similar effect to decreasing the tone of the parasympathetic nervous system, causing tachycardia.

  • In some patients an increase in ventricular ectopy including non-sustained ventricular tachycardia has been observed which did not affect patient safety or outcome.

  • It is particularly useful to treat hypotension during spinal anesthesia when the patient has a tachycardia.

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