different between tachycardia vs fibrillation

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

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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

From New Latin fibrilla, diminutive of Latin fibra (“fiber”) in reference to the muscle strands of the heart.

Noun

fibrillation (countable and uncountable, plural fibrillations)

1. The rapid, irregular, and unsynchronized contraction of the muscle fibers of the heart.

Derived terms

• atrial fibrillation
• defibrillation
• ventricular fibrillation

Related terms

• fiber
• fibrillate
• defibrillate
• defibrillator

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