Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun An abnormality in an otherwise normal rhythmic pattern, as of brain waves being recorded by an electroencephalograph.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In pathology, an occasional disturbance of rhythm.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A disturbance to an otherwise normal rhythm (especially of the heart)

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[New Latin : dys– + Latin rhythmus, rhythm; see rhythm.]

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Examples

  • My first full day in Hanoi I awoke at 4 a.m., but for once I was grateful for circadian dysrhythmia, otherwise known as jet lag.

    Tour of Hanoi 2010

  • "I've been able to cut back on diuretic drugs by a third and cut another medicine for cardiac dysrhythmia by half."

    QUIETING A BODY'S DEFENSES 2007

  • The most likely would be something in the heart producing a cardiac dysrhythmia.

    CNN Transcript Feb 8, 2007 2007

  • WECHT: It could be pure drugs or it could be drugs related to a cardiac dysrhythmia.

    CNN Transcript Feb 8, 2007 2007

  • I also believe that those drugs, which are known to have the specific propensity to precipitate a cardiac dysrhythmia, I think that the drugs in Daniel Smith's case did exactly that, and that is why that boy died so suddenly and seemingly inexplicably at the time.

    CNN Transcript Feb 8, 2007 2007

  • You have got methadone, Lexapro and Zoloft -- some question of a cardiac dysrhythmia associated with those drugs.

    CNN Transcript Feb 9, 2007 2007

  • And, by the way, there's a very specific cardiac dysrhythmia, (INAUDIBLE), French, which has come to be known to be especially associated with antidepressants.

    CNN Transcript Sep 27, 2006 2006

  • BRIAN CABELL, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): The death certificate for Nathaniel Jones will list cardiac dysrhythmia, another term for cardiac arrest, as the official cause of death.

    CNN Transcript Dec 4, 2003 2003

  • BRIAN CABELL, CNN CORRESPONDENT: The official cause of death, cardiac dysrhythmia.

    CNN Transcript Dec 4, 2003 2003

  • QUESTION: Did you say the cause was dysrhythmia, did I understand you to say that?

    CNN Transcript Dec 3, 2003 2003

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