arrhythmia

English

Etymology

Borrowed from New Latin arrhythmia, from Ancient Greek ἀρρυθμία (arrhuthmía), equivalent to a- +‎ rhythm +‎ -ia.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /eɪˈɹɪð.mɪ.ə/, /əˈɹɪð.mi.ə/

Noun

arrhythmia (countable and uncountable, plural arrhythmias)

1. An irregular heartbeat; a lack of a regular pulse.
2. A disease entity involving such beats, such as atrial fibrillation, ventricular tachycardia, AV nodal reentrant tachycardia, or others.

Synonyms

• dysrhythmia

Derived terms

• antiarrhythmia
• arrhythmogenic
• bradyarrhythmia
• hypsarrhythmia
• proarrhythmia
• tachyarrhythmia
• vasoarrhythmia

Translations

Translations

• Arabic: اِضْطِرَاب نَظْم القَلْب (iḍṭirāb naẓm al-qalb)
• Catalan: arrítmia (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 心律不整 (zh) (xīnlǜ bùzhěng), 心律失常 (zh) (xīnlǜ shīcháng), 心律不齊 / 心律不齐 (zh) (xīnlǜ bùqí)

• Czech: arytmie f
• Dutch: hartritmestoornis (nl) f, aritmie (nl) f
• Esperanto: kora misritmo
• Finnish: rytmihäiriö (fi)
• French: arythmie (fr) f
• German: Herzrhythmusstörung (de) f, Arrhythmie f
• Greek: αρρυθμία (el) f (arrythmía)
• Indonesian: aritmia
• Italian: aritmia (it) f
• Japanese: 不整脈 (ja) (ふせいみゃく, fuseimyaku)
• Kazakh: ырғақсыздық (yrğaqsyzdyq)
• Korean: 부정맥(不整脈) (bujeongmaek)
• Polish: arytmia (pl) f
• Portuguese: arritmia (pt) f
• Russian: аритми́я (ru) f (aritmíja)
• Spanish: arritmia (es) f
• Swedish: arytmi (sv) c
• Turkish: aritmi (tr)

See also

• tachycardia
• bradycardia

Latin

Etymology

New Latin, borrowed from Ancient Greek ἀρρυθμία (arrhuthmía).

Pronunciation

(Classical Latin) IPA(key): [arˈrʰytʰ.mi.a]

• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [arˈrit.mi.a]

Noun

arrhythmia f (genitive arrhythmiae); first declension

1. arrhythmia

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	arrhythmia	arrhythmiae
genitive	arrhythmiae	arrhythmiārum
dative	arrhythmiae	arrhythmiīs
accusative	arrhythmiam	arrhythmiās
ablative	arrhythmiā	arrhythmiīs
vocative	arrhythmia	arrhythmiae