palpitation
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Middle French palpitation, from Latin palpitatio.
Pronunciation[edit]
- Rhymes: -eɪʃən
Noun[edit]
palpitation (countable and uncountable, plural palpitations)
- An abnormal beating of the heart that may be perceived by the patient, a result of excitement, exertion, or illness.
- 1818, [Mary Shelley], chapter IV, in Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. […], volume I, London: […] [Macdonald and Son] for Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor, & Jones, →OCLC, pages 101–102:
- Sometimes my pulse beat so quickly and hardly, that I felt the palpitation of every artery; at others, I nearly sank to the ground through languor and extreme weakness.
Translations[edit]
abnormal beating of the heart
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French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Latin palpitātiōnem.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
palpitation f (plural palpitations)
Related terms[edit]
Descendants[edit]
- → Romanian: palpitație
Further reading[edit]
- “palpitation”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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