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arrhythmia

ar·rhyth·mi·a

arrhythmia

 
pronunciation:
rIth mi [or] rIth mi
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part of speech: noun
definition: any abnormality in the rhythm or strength of the heartbeat.
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adjective + (n.)arrhythmia abnormal, atrial, cardiac, certain, chaotic, common, congestive, dangerous, excessive, fatal, ideal, irregular, lethal, life-threatening, likely, medical, mild, myocardial, nocturnal, non-fatal, normal, particular, permanent, respiratory, serious, severe, so-called, subsequent, sudden, upper [See all][See only the most frequent]
verb + (n.)arrhythmia approve, associate, call, cause, control, cure, deal, depend, destroy, detect, develop, diagnose, die, experience, fail, flush, gate, lead, may, mention, occur, precipitate, prevent, reduce, result, show, stop, suffer, threaten, treat, trigger  [See all][See only the most frequent]
noun + (n.)arrhythmia Help ablation, abnormality, american, angina, apnea, arrest, athlete, attack, beat, blood, caffeine, cause, chamber, complication, condition, death, disease, disorder, doctor, drug, electrolyte, episode, event, failure, fibrillation, form, heart, heartbeat, hospital, hypertension, improvement, infection, irregularity, ischemia, kidney, medication, month, mortality, occurrence, onset, palpitation, patient, placebo, pressure, prevention, problem, reaction, research, rhythm, risk, seizure, site, sleep, specialist, stroke, susceptibility, therapy, tissue, treatment, trial, type, valve, victim, warning [See all][See only the most frequent]
derivations: arrhythmic (adj.), arrhythmically (adv.)
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The word arrhythmia contains the following part:
a-1, an-1 Greek prefix that means not, without
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Words prefixed with a-1, an-1 are nouns and adjectives. Some are loanwords from Greek (amorphous , atrophy ). Others are English formations, which may attach the prefix to English words of Latin origin (asocial , amoral ) or Greek origin (apolitical). The form a-1 is used before bases beginning with a consonant, while an-1 is used before bases beginning with a vowel.