different between tachycardia vs arrhythmia

English

Etymology

From New Latin tachycardia, from Ancient Greek ????? (takhús, “swift”) + ?????? (kardía, “heart”), analysable as tachy- +? -cardia; compare French tachycardie.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /tæ.k??k??(?).di.?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /tæ.k??k???.di.?/
• Rhymes: -??(?)di?
• Hyphenation: ta?chy?car?dia

Noun

tachycardia (countable and uncountable, plural tachycardias)

1. A rapid resting heart rate, especially one above 100 beats per minute. [from 19th c.]

   Synonym: tachyrhythmia

   Antonym: bradycardia

Derived terms

• tachycardiac
• tachycardic

Translations

References

Further reading

• tachycardia on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• “tachycardia” in Colin McIntosh, editor, Cambridge Advanced Learner’s Dictionary, 4th edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013, ?ISBN; reproduced on the Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, retrieved 14 February 2017.
• “tachycardia” in the Collins English Dictionary, retrieved 14 February 2017
• “tachycardia” in Stuart Berg Flexner, editor in chief, Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 2nd rev. and updated edition, New York, N.Y.: Random House, 1993, ?ISBN; reproduced on Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present, retrieved 14 February 2017.
• “tachycardia”, in Merriam–Webster Online Dictionary, (Please provide a date or year).
• “tachycardia”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /e????ðm??/, /????ðmi.?/

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.

Synonyms

• dysrhythmia

Translations

Latin

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

(Classical) IPA^(key): /ar?ryt?.mi.a/, [är?r?t??miä]

• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ar?rit.mi.a/, [?r?rit?mi?]

Noun

arrhythmia f (genitive arrhythmiae); first declension

1. arrhythmia

Declension

First-declension noun.