单词 | embryocardia |
释义 | > as lemmasembryocardia embryocardia n. Brit. /ˌɛmbrɪə(ʊ)ˈkɑːdɪə/ , U.S. /ˌɛmbrioʊˈkɑrdiə/ [after French embryocardie (1888 or earlier)] now rare the condition (in post-natal life) of having equally spaced heart sounds, as in the fetus.ΚΠ 1888 Boston Med. & Surg. Jrnl. 24 May 531/2 Huchard gives to this quality of cardiac action the name of embryocardia, and regards it as a symptom of the very worst augury. 1899 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. VI. 813 The name ‘embryocardia’..is pedantic if it means merely a very rapid heart; misleading if it means that the heart has undergone some reversion to a fetal state. 1908 W. Osler & T. McCrae Syst. Med. IV. 275 Tachycardia with embryocardia exhibits phenomena which correspond to a prolonged series of extrasystole. 1959 J. R. Christian in A. A. Luisada Cardiology II. iii. 147 The rapid rate and equal intensity of the sounds in the new-born produce a tic-tac type of rhythm or embryocardia, similar to that heard in the fetus. < as lemmas |
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