tachycardia

1. 1.

   abnormally rapid heartbeat (over 100 beats per minute)

   Broadercardiac arrhythmia

Other forms of tachycardia

plural

tachycardias·

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 tachycardia

What does tachycardia mean?

tachycardia means "abnormally rapid heartbeat (over 100 beats per minute)".

How many syllables are in tachycardia?

tachycardia has 5 syllables: ta-chy-car-di-a. The stress falls on "car". In IPA it is /ˌtɑkiˈkɑɹˌdiə/.