Disease or Syndrome
ventricular arrhythmia
[ ven-trik-yuh-ler uh-rith -mee-uh, ey-rith - ]
Definitions related to ventricular arrhythmia:
  • A disorder characterized by an electrocardiographic finding of an atypical cardiac rhythm resulting from a pathologic process in the cardiac ventricles.
    NCI Thesaurus
    U.S. National Cancer Institute, 2021
  • Abnormal heart rhythm that starts in the lower chambers of the heart; this rhythm disturbance can occur as a complication of a heart attack and impairs the heart's pumping ability.
    Harvard Dictionary of Health Terms
    Harvard Medical Publishing, 2011
  • A disorder characterized by a dysrhythmia that originates in the ventricles.
    Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events
    U.S. National Institutes of Health, 2021
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