paroxysmal tachycardia

noun

, Pathology.

1. tachycardia that begins and subsides suddenly.

Example Sentences

In the condition known as paroxysmal tachycardia there appears to be no adequate explanation for its onset.

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Paroxysmal Tachycardia.—A rapid heart may not only exist continuously in an individual for many years without any impairment of general health or shortening of life, but there may be spasmodic attacks of this condition with the pulse running up so high as to deserve the name of paroxysmal tachycardia; yet the patient may live for many years and die from some affection not connected with his heart.

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His first attack of paroxysmal tachycardia came in his thirty-seventh year.

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It is different from paroxysmal tachycardia, in which the heart rate rarely exceeds 180 per minute.

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Some patients, both men and women, cannot take even a small cup of tea or coffee without an attack of paroxysmal tachycardia.

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