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palpitation

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[ US /ˌpæɫpəˈteɪʃən/ ]
[ UK /pˌælpɪtˈe‍ɪʃən/ ]
NOUN
  1. a shaky motion
    the shaking of his fingers as he lit his pipe
  2. a rapid and irregular heart beat

How To Use palpitation In A Sentence

  • I have had a number of patients in my practice that had their first episode of rapid heart action and palpitation during pregnancy.
  • Patients may feel palpitations or a thump in the chest when a beat compensates for a prior missed beat.
  • But earlier I used to get palpitations with breathlessness.
  • No specific cause of the palpitations could be identified in 16 percent of the patients.
  • The carcinoid syndrome is classically described as flushing, diarrhea, and abdominal cramps, but borborygmi, cyanosis, telangiectasis, pellagra like skin lesions, wheezing, dypsnea or palpitations may also occur.
  • They have many uses including treating anxiety, migraine and palpitations. The Sun
  • The year out may have caused a problem in terms of re-employment, but the stress was causing heart palpitations. Times, Sunday Times
  • The sight of a policeman walking toward you sometimes causes heart palpitations. Christianity Today
  • It's bite can cause heart palpitations, swelling and nausea. Times, Sunday Times
  • Heart palpitations are the sensation of an irregular rapid or slow beat in the heart.
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