Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The restoration of the heartbeat to normal functioning by the application of electrical shock or by the use of medication.
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- noun The
treatment ofcardiac arrhythmia , either withmedication or by use of a machine (acardioverter ) that delivers a controlledelectric current .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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To correct your condition, doctors may be able to reset your heart to its regular rhythm (sinus rhythm) using a procedure called cardioversion, depending on the underlying cause of atrial fibrillation and how long you've had it.
Find Me A Cure 2010
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A well-placed source tells Us the actor, 57, underwent "cardioversion," a procedure that converts an abnormal heart rhythm back to a normal rhythm, on Wednesday night.
Celebrity Mound 2009
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Treatments include drugs and cardioversion, a procedure that delivers an electrical shock to the heart into a normal rhythm as well as ablation, mostly with devices that aren't specifically approved by the FDA to treat the condition.
FDA Panel Rejects Medtronic Heart Device Jennifer Corbett Dooren 2011
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But she did not respond to any of the various medications and she received cardioversion several times a day during her first month of life.
A Book of Miracles Jack Canfield 2010
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But she did not respond to any of the various medications and she received cardioversion several times a day during her first month of life.
A Book of Miracles Jack Canfield 2010
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But she did not respond to any of the various medications and she received cardioversion several times a day during her first month of life.
A Book of Miracles Jack Canfield 2010
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During that time she had her first electric shock cardioversion.
Atrial fibrillation is easy to find, but evidence on how best to treat it isn't 2010
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But she did not respond to any of the various medications and she received cardioversion several times a day during her first month of life.
A Book of Miracles Jack Canfield 2010
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But she did not respond to any of the various medications and she received cardioversion several times a day during her first month of life.
A Book of Miracles Jack Canfield 2010
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There is a one in 8,000 chance that there can be a stroke or death from the cardioversion.
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