cardiac arrhythmia

1. 1.

   an abnormal rate of muscle contractions in the heart

   Synonymsarrhythmia

   Broaderheart disease

   Narrowerfluttergallop rhythmatrial fibrillationbradycardiaheart blockpremature ventricular contractiontachycardiaventricular fibrillation

Questions about cardiac arrhythmia

What does cardiac arrhythmia mean?

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

What is another word for cardiac arrhythmia?

Close synonyms include 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 cardiac arrhythmia a common word?

cardiac arrhythmia is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.