[
US
/ˌpæɫpəˈteɪʃən/
]
[ UK /pˌælpɪtˈeɪʃən/ ]
[ UK /pˌælpɪtˈeɪʃən/ ]
NOUN
-
a shaky motion
the shaking of his fingers as he lit his pipe - 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.