paroxysmal tachycardia

noun

, Pathology.

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

Paroxysmal tachycardia is another heart condition, in which the heartbeat suddenly speeds up to 160 beats per minute or more.

The emotional symptoms of both mitral incompetence and paroxysmal tachycardia may involve anxiety and panic attacks.

Attacks usually come on suddenly and may disappear as suddenly, suggesting paroxysmal tachycardia.

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

Browse