CARDIAC RHYTHM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cardiac rhythm mean? 

• CARDIAC RHYTHM (noun)
  The noun CARDIAC RHYTHM has 1 sense:

1. the rhythm of a beating heart

  Familiarity information: CARDIAC RHYTHM used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CARDIAC RHYTHM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The rhythm of a beating heart

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

cardiac rhythm; heart rhythm

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 

Having stabilizing and quinidine-like effects on cardiac rhythm, Acebutolol is used in ventricular arrhythmias.

(Acebutolol, NCI Thesaurus)

The cardiac rhythm device malfunction affected the left ventricular (LV) pacing.

(Left Cardiac Ventricular Pacing Malfunction, NCI Thesaurus/ACC)

A cardiac rhythm characterized by progressive PR prolongation and shortening of RR interval until P wave is blocked.

(Mobitz I, NCI Thesaurus)

Terminology associated with the cardiac rhythm device failure manifestation codelist of the Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium (CDISC) Standard Data Tabulation Model (SDTM).

(CDISC SDTM Cardiac Rhythm Device Failure Manifestation Terminology, NCI Thesaurus)

The effect that a cardiac rhythm device malfunction had on the ability to stimulate the heart.

(CDISC SDTM Cardiac Rhythm Device Failure Manifestation Terminology, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

An electrocardiographic finding of an atypical cardiac rhythm resulting from a pathologic process in the cardiac atria.

(Atrial Arrhythmia by ECG Finding, NCI Thesaurus)

The conversion of one cardiac rhythm or electrical pattern to another, almost always from an abnormal to a normal one, by pharmacologic means using medications or by electrical cardioversion using a defibrillator.

(Cardioversion, NCI Thesaurus)

The cardiac rhythm device malfunction affected atrial pacing.

(Cardiac Atrial Pacing Malfunction, NCI Thesaurus/ACC)

The cardiac rhythm device malfunction affected the defibrillator.

(Cardiac Defibrillator Malfunction, NCI Thesaurus/ACC)

An electrocardiographic finding that the cardiac rhythm is initiated by a cardiac pacemaker generated electrical impulse in the ventricle.

(Paced Ventricular Rhythm without Intrinsic Ventricular Complexes, NCI Thesaurus)