| AB | abdominal; abnormal; abortion; Ace bandage; active bilaterally; aid to the blind; alcian blue; alert... |
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| AE | above-elbow [amputation]; acrodermatitis enteropathica; activation energy; adult erythrocyte; advers... |
| APB | abductor pollicis brevis; atrial premature beat |
| BII | beat inclusion index; Billroth II [operation]; butanol-insoluble iodine |
| CBF | capillary blood flow; cerebral blood flow; ciliary beat frequency; coronary blood flow; cortical blo... |
| dropped beat | A heart beat that fails to appear. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| interference beat | Ventricular capture in forms of A-V dissociation due to interference. (05 Mar 2000) |
| echo beat | Extrasystole produced by the return of an impulse in the heart retrograde to a focus near its origin which then returns antegradely to produce a second depolorization. (05 Mar 2000) |
| ectopic beat | A cardiac beat originating elsewhere than at the sinoatrial node. (05 Mar 2000) |
| forced beat | <cardiology, physiology> An extrasystole supposedly precipitated in some way by the preceding normal beat to which it is coupled, an extrasystole caused by artificial stimulation of the heart. Synonym: dependent beat. (05 Mar 2000) |
| fusion beat | A beat triggered by more than a single electrical impulse, when the wave fronts coincide to act together on a single final pathway of activity; in the electrocardiogram, the atrial or ventricular complex when either atria or ventricles are activated jointly by two simultaneous or nearly simultaneous invading impulses. Synonym: combination beat, mixed beat, summation beat. (05 Mar 2000) |