Definitions

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

  • noun The origination of cardiac electrical impulses in myocardium outside of the sinoatrial node.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Same as ectopia.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Med.) Same as ectopia.

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

  • noun pathology The condition such that an organ or other body part has an abnormal position.

Etymologies

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

[From New Latin ectopia, displacement; see ectopia.]

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Examples

  • Prophetic, but my iron overload did not get a dx until 2005, with ectopy, diabetes, mild restrictive cardiomyopathy, and 14 cardiac stents.

    A belated Merry Christmas! | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D. 2008

  • Results: Animals given methamphetamine demonstrated signs of methamphetamine toxicity with tachycardia, hypertension, and atrial and ventricular ectopy in the 30-minute period immediately after administration of the drug.

    Medgadget 2010

  • All animals given methamphetamine demonstrated signs of methamphetamine toxicity with tachycardia, hypertension, and atrial and ventricular ectopy ...

    ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science DrugMonkey none@example.com 2010

  • One of the smaller animals had frequent episodes of ventricular ectopy after two ECD exposures, including runs of delayed-onset (2-5 minutes after the exposure), nonsustained, six - to eight-beat unifocal and multifocal ventricular tachycardias that spontaneously resolved.

    ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science DrugMonkey none@example.com 2010

  • This animal had significant ventricular ectopy after the methamphetamine administration and prior to the exposures as well.

    ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science DrugMonkey none@example.com 2010

  • The PD2i ™ nonlinear algorithm value was calculated on both unedited (raw) and on manually verified, noise-and ectopy-free (clean) EKG sections.

    Blogpulse Top Links 2010

  • (He mainly takes his to suppress ectopy -- that is to say, he gets palpitations and the metoprolol smooths them out.)

    the underwear drawer Michelle Au 2010

  • One of the smaller animals had frequent episodes of ventricular ectopy after two exposures, including runs of delayed onset, nonsustained six - to eight-beat unifocal and multifocal ventricular tachycardia that spontaneously resolved.

    Medgadget 2010

  • (He mainly takes his to suppress ectopy -- that is to say, he gets palpitations and the metoprolol smooths them out.)

    the underwear drawer Michelle Au 2010

  • This animal had significant ectopy prior to the exposures as well.

    Medgadget 2010

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