English words for 'The suppression of normal heart activity'
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noun
- inability of the heart to pump enough blood to sustain normal bodily functions
- (cardiology, pathology) The cessation of the heartbeat; cardiac arrest.
- (cardiology, pathology) The chronic inability of the heart to pump a sufficient amount of blood throughout the body, leading to a pooling of blood and shortness of breath.
noun
- Initialism of heart rate.
- (occupational health) Initialism of hazard ratio.
- The management and administration thereof; a department or function that performs those.
- (law, politics) Initialism of house resolution.
- The human capital of an organization.
- (baseball) Initialism of home runs (in statistics).
- Initialism of [U.S.] House Resolution.
- (philately) Initialism of hinge remnant.
- (genetics) Initialism of homologous recombination.
name
noun
- (physiology) The performance of cardiac muscle.
- The extent to which something contracts or shrinks.
- The condition of being able to contract or shrink (used especially of muscles).
- the capability or quality of shrinking or contracting, especially by muscle fibers and even some other forms of living matter
verb
- beat so fast that (the heart's) output starts dropping until (it) does not manage to pump out blood at all
- move or stir about violently
- dance the slam dance
- beat the seeds out of a grain
- give a thrashing to; beat hard
- beat thoroughly and conclusively in a competition or fight
- move data into and out of core rather than performing useful computation
- (computing) In computer architecture, to cause or undergo poor performance of a virtual memory (or paging) system.
- (software) To extensively test a software system, giving a program various inputs and observing the behavior and outputs that result.
- To beat mercilessly.
- To defeat utterly.
- To thresh.
- To move about wildly or violently; to flail; to labour.
noun
noun
noun
- The rhythm at which a heart pulsates, a cardiac indicator.
- the rhythmic contraction and expansion of the arteries with each beat of the heart
- A very short space of time; an instant.
- One pulsation of the heart; especially an irregular one, hence the emotion which causes it.
- (computing) A periodic signal generated by hardware or software to indicate normal operation or to synchronize other parts of a system.
- A driving impulse or vital force; the vital center of something.
- a very short time (as the time it takes the eye to blink or the heart to beat)
- an animating or vital unifying force
noun
- a specialized bit of heart tissue that controls the heartbeat
- a leading instance in its field
- an implanted electronic device that takes over the function of the natural cardiac pacemaker
- a horse used to set the pace in racing
- (now uncommon) One who sets the pace in a race, to guide the others.
- (by extension, medicine) A medical implement that is used to stimulate a heart to beat by simulating the action of the natural pacemaker.
- (anatomy) Specialized cells which stimulate the heart to beat.
noun
- (medicine) A medical condition wherein the activation of different parts of the heart is improperly synchronized.
- (medicine) A neurological condition wherein auditory stimuli are not processed synchronously.
- (psychology) A term created by Jean-Charles Terrassier in 1985 to define the disparity of a gifted child to his surroundings.
verb
- (intransitive, medicine, cardiology, of the heart) To stop beating.
- (transitive, slang) To kill.
- (of a graph) To experience significantly decreased rates of change compared to previous rates of change.
- (intransitive, medicine, cardiology, by extension) To die.
- (informal, transitive) To remain at the same level, without development; or, to fall.
- (fishing, intransitive) To fish using a flatline.
noun
- (fishing) A line that is run low to the water from the rod tip, generally off a release clip of some type.
- The disappearance of the rhythmic peaks displayed on a heart monitor.
- (also figurative) An unchanging state, as indicated in a graph of a variable over time.
- The disappearance of brain waves on an electroencephalogram.
noun
- (medicine) A test of cardiac function after a standardized amount of exertion.
- (banking, finance) A test of an organization's ability to meet its financial obligations in adverse financial circumstances.
- (by extension) Any test of function in response to stress.
- (computing) A DDoS
- a test measuring how a system functions when subjected to controlled amounts of stress
noun
- irregularity of cardiac rhythm; recurrent occurrences can be a precursor of ventricular fibrillation
- a polymer of vinyl chloride used instead of rubber in electric cables
- (organic chemistry) Initialism of polyvinyl chloride.
- (medicine) Initialism of premature ventricular contraction.
- (networking) Initialism of permanent virtual circuit.
- (medicine) Initialism of peripheral venous catheter.
noun
- The regular throbbing of the heart, an artery etc. in a living body; the pulse.
- the rhythmic contraction and expansion of the arteries with each beat of the heart
- Any rhythmic beating, throbbing etc.
- (botany) The rhythmic increase and decrease of size in naked zoospores and plasmodia.
- A single beat, throb or vibration.
- a periodically recurring phenomenon that alternately increases and decreases some quantity
- (electronics) a sharp transient wave in the normal electrical state (or a series of such transients)
noun
- the rhythmic contraction and expansion of the arteries with each beat of the heart
- the sound of stroke or blow
- a member of the beat generation; a nonconformist in dress and behavior
- a regular route for a sentry or policeman
- a single pulsation of an oscillation produced by adding two waves of different frequencies; has a frequency equal to the difference between the two oscillations
- the act of beating to windward; sailing as close as possible to the direction from which the wind is blowing
- (prosody) the accent in a metrical foot of verse
- a regular rate of repetition
- a stroke or blow
- the basic rhythmic unit in a piece of music
- (music) The rhythm signalled by a conductor or other musician to the members of a group of musicians.
- (slang) A makeup look; compare beat one's face.
- The instrumental portion of a piece of hip-hop music.
- A rhythm.
- A pulsation or throb.
- (journalism) The primary focus of a reporter's stories (such as police/courts, education, city government, business etc.).
- (authorship) A short pause in a play, screenplay, or teleplay, for dramatic or comedic effect.
- (music) A pulse on the beat level, the metric level at which pulses are heard as the basic unit. Thus a beat is the basic time unit of a piece.
- The interference between two tones of almost equal frequency
- (hunting) The act of scouring, or ranging over, a tract of land to rouse or drive out game; also, those so engaged, collectively.
- A stroke; a blow.
- (fencing) A smart tap on the adversary's blade.
- The route patrolled by a police officer or a guard.
- A beatnik.
adj
verb
- move rhythmically
- move with or as if with a regular alternating motion
- strike (a part of one's own body) repeatedly, as in great emotion or in accompaniment to music
- make a rhythmic sound
- move with a thrashing motion
- produce a rhythm by striking repeatedly
- wear out completely
- stir vigorously
- avoid paying
- hit repeatedly
- be superior
- make a sound like a clock or a timer
- shape by beating
- be a mystery or bewildering to
- indicate by beating, as with the fingers or drumsticks
- glare or strike with great intensity
- come out better in a competition, race, or conflict
- make by pounding or trampling
- sail with much tacking or with difficulty
- strike (water or bushes) repeatedly to rouse animals for hunting
- give a beating to; subject to a beating, either as a punishment or as an act of aggression
- beat through cleverness and wit
- move with a flapping motion
- (intransitive, nautical) To sail to windward using a series of alternate tacks across the wind.
- To make a sound when struck.
- To be in agitation or doubt.
- To mix food in a rapid fashion. Compare whip.
- simple past tense of beat
- (military, intransitive) To make a succession of strokes on a drum.
- (intransitive, MLE, MTE, slang, vulgar) To have sexual intercourse.
- (transitive, slang) To rob; to cheat or scam.
- (transitive) To arrive at a place before someone.
- (intransitive) To strike repeatedly; to inflict repeated blows; to knock vigorously or loudly.
- (intransitive) To move with pulsation or throbbing.
- (transitive) To strike or pound repeatedly, usually in some sort of rhythm.
- (especially colloquial) past participle of beat
- To tread, as a path.
- To exercise severely; to perplex; to trouble.
- To sound with more or less rapid alternations of greater and lesser intensity, so as to produce a pulsating effect; said of instruments, tones, or vibrations not perfectly in unison.
- (transitive) To win against; to defeat or overcome; to do or be better than (someone); to excel in a particular, competitive event.
- (transitive) To indicate by beating or drumming.
- (transitive) To strike (water, foliage etc.) in order to drive out game; to travel through (a forest etc.) for hunting.
- (transitive) To hit; to strike.
- (transitive, UK, in haggling for a price of a buyer) To persuade the seller to reduce a price.
noun
- inability of the heart to pump enough blood to sustain normal bodily functions
- (cardiology, pathology) The cessation of the heartbeat; cardiac arrest.
- (cardiology, pathology) The chronic inability of the heart to pump a sufficient amount of blood throughout the body, leading to a pooling of blood and shortness of breath.
noun
- Initialism of heart rate.
- (occupational health) Initialism of hazard ratio.
- The management and administration thereof; a department or function that performs those.
- (law, politics) Initialism of house resolution.
- The human capital of an organization.
- (baseball) Initialism of home runs (in statistics).
- Initialism of [U.S.] House Resolution.
- (philately) Initialism of hinge remnant.
- (genetics) Initialism of homologous recombination.
name
noun
- (physiology) The performance of cardiac muscle.
- The extent to which something contracts or shrinks.
- The condition of being able to contract or shrink (used especially of muscles).
- the capability or quality of shrinking or contracting, especially by muscle fibers and even some other forms of living matter
noun
noun
- The rhythm at which a heart pulsates, a cardiac indicator.
- the rhythmic contraction and expansion of the arteries with each beat of the heart
- A very short space of time; an instant.
- One pulsation of the heart; especially an irregular one, hence the emotion which causes it.
- (computing) A periodic signal generated by hardware or software to indicate normal operation or to synchronize other parts of a system.
- A driving impulse or vital force; the vital center of something.
- a very short time (as the time it takes the eye to blink or the heart to beat)
- an animating or vital unifying force
noun
- a specialized bit of heart tissue that controls the heartbeat
- a leading instance in its field
- an implanted electronic device that takes over the function of the natural cardiac pacemaker
- a horse used to set the pace in racing
- (now uncommon) One who sets the pace in a race, to guide the others.
- (by extension, medicine) A medical implement that is used to stimulate a heart to beat by simulating the action of the natural pacemaker.
- (anatomy) Specialized cells which stimulate the heart to beat.
noun
- (medicine) A medical condition wherein the activation of different parts of the heart is improperly synchronized.
- (medicine) A neurological condition wherein auditory stimuli are not processed synchronously.
- (psychology) A term created by Jean-Charles Terrassier in 1985 to define the disparity of a gifted child to his surroundings.
noun
- (medicine) A test of cardiac function after a standardized amount of exertion.
- (banking, finance) A test of an organization's ability to meet its financial obligations in adverse financial circumstances.
- (by extension) Any test of function in response to stress.
- (computing) A DDoS
- a test measuring how a system functions when subjected to controlled amounts of stress
noun
- irregularity of cardiac rhythm; recurrent occurrences can be a precursor of ventricular fibrillation
- a polymer of vinyl chloride used instead of rubber in electric cables
- (organic chemistry) Initialism of polyvinyl chloride.
- (medicine) Initialism of premature ventricular contraction.
- (networking) Initialism of permanent virtual circuit.
- (medicine) Initialism of peripheral venous catheter.
noun
- The regular throbbing of the heart, an artery etc. in a living body; the pulse.
- the rhythmic contraction and expansion of the arteries with each beat of the heart
- Any rhythmic beating, throbbing etc.
- (botany) The rhythmic increase and decrease of size in naked zoospores and plasmodia.
- A single beat, throb or vibration.
- a periodically recurring phenomenon that alternately increases and decreases some quantity
- (electronics) a sharp transient wave in the normal electrical state (or a series of such transients)
noun
- the rhythmic contraction and expansion of the arteries with each beat of the heart
- the sound of stroke or blow
- a member of the beat generation; a nonconformist in dress and behavior
- a regular route for a sentry or policeman
- a single pulsation of an oscillation produced by adding two waves of different frequencies; has a frequency equal to the difference between the two oscillations
- the act of beating to windward; sailing as close as possible to the direction from which the wind is blowing
- (prosody) the accent in a metrical foot of verse
- a regular rate of repetition
- a stroke or blow
- the basic rhythmic unit in a piece of music
- (music) The rhythm signalled by a conductor or other musician to the members of a group of musicians.
- (slang) A makeup look; compare beat one's face.
- The instrumental portion of a piece of hip-hop music.
- A rhythm.
- A pulsation or throb.
- (journalism) The primary focus of a reporter's stories (such as police/courts, education, city government, business etc.).
- (authorship) A short pause in a play, screenplay, or teleplay, for dramatic or comedic effect.
- (music) A pulse on the beat level, the metric level at which pulses are heard as the basic unit. Thus a beat is the basic time unit of a piece.
- The interference between two tones of almost equal frequency
- (hunting) The act of scouring, or ranging over, a tract of land to rouse or drive out game; also, those so engaged, collectively.
- A stroke; a blow.
- (fencing) A smart tap on the adversary's blade.
- The route patrolled by a police officer or a guard.
- A beatnik.
adj
verb
- move rhythmically
- move with or as if with a regular alternating motion
- strike (a part of one's own body) repeatedly, as in great emotion or in accompaniment to music
- make a rhythmic sound
- move with a thrashing motion
- produce a rhythm by striking repeatedly
- wear out completely
- stir vigorously
- avoid paying
- hit repeatedly
- be superior
- make a sound like a clock or a timer
- shape by beating
- be a mystery or bewildering to
- indicate by beating, as with the fingers or drumsticks
- glare or strike with great intensity
- come out better in a competition, race, or conflict
- make by pounding or trampling
- sail with much tacking or with difficulty
- strike (water or bushes) repeatedly to rouse animals for hunting
- give a beating to; subject to a beating, either as a punishment or as an act of aggression
- beat through cleverness and wit
- move with a flapping motion
- (intransitive, nautical) To sail to windward using a series of alternate tacks across the wind.
- To make a sound when struck.
- To be in agitation or doubt.
- To mix food in a rapid fashion. Compare whip.
- simple past tense of beat
- (military, intransitive) To make a succession of strokes on a drum.
- (intransitive, MLE, MTE, slang, vulgar) To have sexual intercourse.
- (transitive, slang) To rob; to cheat or scam.
- (transitive) To arrive at a place before someone.
- (intransitive) To strike repeatedly; to inflict repeated blows; to knock vigorously or loudly.
- (intransitive) To move with pulsation or throbbing.
- (transitive) To strike or pound repeatedly, usually in some sort of rhythm.
- (especially colloquial) past participle of beat
- To tread, as a path.
- To exercise severely; to perplex; to trouble.
- To sound with more or less rapid alternations of greater and lesser intensity, so as to produce a pulsating effect; said of instruments, tones, or vibrations not perfectly in unison.
- (transitive) To win against; to defeat or overcome; to do or be better than (someone); to excel in a particular, competitive event.
- (transitive) To indicate by beating or drumming.
- (transitive) To strike (water, foliage etc.) in order to drive out game; to travel through (a forest etc.) for hunting.
- (transitive) To hit; to strike.
- (transitive, UK, in haggling for a price of a buyer) To persuade the seller to reduce a price.
verb
- beat so fast that (the heart's) output starts dropping until (it) does not manage to pump out blood at all
- move or stir about violently
- dance the slam dance
- beat the seeds out of a grain
- give a thrashing to; beat hard
- beat thoroughly and conclusively in a competition or fight
- move data into and out of core rather than performing useful computation
- (computing) In computer architecture, to cause or undergo poor performance of a virtual memory (or paging) system.
- (software) To extensively test a software system, giving a program various inputs and observing the behavior and outputs that result.
- To beat mercilessly.
- To defeat utterly.
- To thresh.
- To move about wildly or violently; to flail; to labour.
noun
verb
- (intransitive, medicine, cardiology, of the heart) To stop beating.
- (transitive, slang) To kill.
- (of a graph) To experience significantly decreased rates of change compared to previous rates of change.
- (intransitive, medicine, cardiology, by extension) To die.
- (informal, transitive) To remain at the same level, without development; or, to fall.
- (fishing, intransitive) To fish using a flatline.
noun
- (fishing) A line that is run low to the water from the rod tip, generally off a release clip of some type.
- The disappearance of the rhythmic peaks displayed on a heart monitor.
- (also figurative) An unchanging state, as indicated in a graph of a variable over time.
- The disappearance of brain waves on an electroencephalogram.