arrhythmia

English

Etymology

Borrowed from New Latin arrhythmia, from Ancient Greek ἀρρυθμία (arrhuthmía).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /eɪˈɹɪðmɪə/, /əˈɹɪðmi.ə/

Noun

arrhythmia (countable and uncountable, plural arrhythmias)

  1. An irregular heartbeat.
  2. A disease entity involving such beats, such as atrial fibrillation, ventricular tachycardia, AV nodal reentrant tachycardia, or others.

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Translations

Latin

Etymology

New Latin, borrowed from Ancient Greek ἀρρυθμία (arrhuthmía).

Pronunciation

(Classical) IPA(key): /arˈrytʰ.mi.a/, [arˈrʏtʰ.mi.a]

Noun

arrhythmia f (genitive arrhythmiae); first declension

  1. arrhythmia

Inflection

First declension.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative arrhythmia arrhythmiae
Genitive arrhythmiae arrhythmiārum
Dative arrhythmiae arrhythmiīs
Accusative arrhythmiam arrhythmiās
Ablative arrhythmiā arrhythmiīs
Vocative arrhythmia arrhythmiae
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