premature ventricular contraction

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   irregularity of cardiac rhythm; recurrent occurrences can be a precursor of ventricular fibrillation

   SynonymsPVC

   Broadercardiac arrhythmia

Questions about premature ventricular contraction

What does premature ventricular contraction mean?

premature ventricular contraction means "irregularity of cardiac rhythm; recurrent occurrences can be a precursor of ventricular fibrillation".

What is another word for premature ventricular contraction?

Close synonyms include PVC. 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 premature ventricular contraction a common word?

premature ventricular contraction 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.