arrhythmia

Other forms of arrhythmia

plural

arrhythmias·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about arrhythmia

What does arrhythmia mean?

arrhythmia means "an abnormal rate of muscle contractions in the heart".

How many syllables are in arrhythmia?

arrhythmia has 4 syllables: arr-hyth-mi-a. The stress falls on "hyth". In IPA it is /ɚˈɪðmiə/.

What is another word for arrhythmia?

Close synonyms include cardiac arrhythmia. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is arrhythmia a common word?

arrhythmia is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.