athlete's heart
| Noun | 1. |  athlete's heart - enlarged heart commonly found among athletes trained for endurance |
| 单词 | athlete's heart | |||
| 释义 | athlete's heart
athlete's heartathlete's heart,common term for an enlarged heartheart,muscular organ that pumps blood to all parts of the body. The rhythmic beating of the heart is a ceaseless activity, lasting from before birth to the end of life. Anatomy and Function The human heart is a pear-shaped structure about the size of a fist. ..... Click the link for more information. associated with repeated strenuous exercise. As a result of the increased workload required of it, the heart will increase physiologically by enlarging chambers and muscle mass, or hypertrophy by enlarging the size of the chambers and increasing the volume of blood pumped per stroke. Consequently, the heart has to contract less frequently and at rest will beat as few as 40 times per minute as compared with an average number of 70 beats in a normal heart. The condition is not pathological, and there is generally no danger of cardiac disability arising from it. athlete's heartath·lete's heartathlete's heartAthletic heart syndrome Sports medicine A heart typical of trained athletes, and characterized by ↑ left ventricular diastolic volume and ↑ thickness of the left ventricular wall, as seen by 2-D echocardiography; arrhythmias seen in athletes' hearts are usually benign and include sinus bradycardia, wandering pacemaker, cardiac blocks, nodal rhythm, atrial fibrillation, ST segment and T-wave changes, ↑ P wave amplitude, right ventricular hypertrophy. See Sudden unexplained nocturnal death.ath·lete's heart(ath'lēts hahrt)See: hypertrophy athlete's heart
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