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CARDIAC RHYTHM

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(GB):

 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

The rhythm of a beating heart

Synonyms:

cardiac rhythm; heart rhythm

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

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)

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 Context examples: 

An electrocardiographic finding in which the cardiac rhythm is controlled by an electrical impulse from an artificial cardiac pacemaker.

(Paced Rhythm, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

Issue associated with device features that are designed to respond to a physical stimulus (temperature, illumination, motion, cardiac rhythms) that do not transmit a resulting signal for interpretation or measurement.

(Medical Device Sensing Issue, Food and Drug Administration)

A cardiac rhythm characterized by a regular sinus/atrial rhythm with intermittent nonconducted P waves.

(Mobitz II, NCI Thesaurus)