different between tachycardia vs tachysystole

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

tachy- +? systole

Noun

tachysystole (plural tachysystoles)

1. (medicine) A condition of excessively frequent uterine contractions during pregnancy.