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 otherbody part has an abnormal position.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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(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
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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
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(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
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This animal had significant ectopy prior to the exposures as well.
Medgadget 2010
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