ventricular tachycardia

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ventricular + tachycardia

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ventricular tachycardia (countable and uncountable, plural ventricular tachycardias)

  1. A heart attack involving a heightened heart rate in a ventricle of the heart.
    If your patient has a ventricular tachycardia then defibrillation may not work.

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