Medical Terminology / Unit 7 MedTerm 0439 short lesson, about 20 seconds
An Arrhythmia
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The idea
An arrhythmia is an abnormal or irregular heart rhythm.
In practice
Atrial fibrillation is one form of arrhythmia.
Where people slip
The term is also written dysrhythmia, using the prefix for abnormal rather than absent.
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