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Pathological Conditions, Signs and Symptoms > Pathologic Processes > Arrhythmias, Cardiac > Tachycardia
Cardiovascular Diseases > Heart Diseases > Arrhythmias, Cardiac > Tachycardia
Cardiovascular Diseases > Heart Diseases > Cardiac Conduction System Disease > Tachycardia

Preferred term

Tachycardia  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

Broader concept

Narrower concepts

Entry terms

  • Tachyarrhythmia
  • Tachyarrhythmias

Note

  • general or unspecified: prefer specific types; exercise tachycardia = HEART RATE (IM) + PHYSICAL EXERTION (NIM)

Scope note

  • Abnormally rapid heartbeat, usually with a HEART RATE above 100 beats per minute for adults. Tachycardia accompanied by disturbance in the cardiac depolarization (cardiac arrhythmia) is called tachyarrhythmia.

In other languages

  • takykardia

    Finnish

  • määrittämätön sydämen tiheälyöntisyys
  • nopea pulssi
  • nopea sydänrytmi
  • nopea syke
  • pulsus frequens
  • rhythmus cordis celer
  • sydämen taaja sykintä
  • sydämen taajalyöntisyys
  • sydämen tiheälyöntisyys
  • taaja sykintä
  • taajalyöntisyys
  • tachycardia
  • taky
  • tiheä pulssi
  • tiheälyöntisyys
  • Takykardi

    Swedish

  • Hjärtrusning
  • Takyarytmi

URI

http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D013610

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