cardioversion

See also: cardioversión

English

Etymology

From cardio- +‎ version. cardio- is from Ancient Greek καρδία (kardía). The second term is by analogy and can be any term from Latin verso like invert or revert. The mixing of Latin and Greek morphemes suggests that this was coined in English.

Noun

cardioversion (countable and uncountable, plural cardioversions)

1. The treatment of cardiac arrhythmia, either with medication or by use of a machine (a cardioverter) that delivers a controlled electric current.
   • 2012, Y. Grosgogeat, “Cerebral Ischemic Accidents of Cardiac Origin”, in Jacques Bories, editor, Cerebral Ischaemia: A Neuroradiological Study (Neuroradiology; volume 27, number 6), Berlin: Springer-Verlag, →DOI, →ISBN, page 130:

     The posologies employed require careful clinical and electrical supervision, and the same anticoagulant measures as for electrical cardioversion are necessary.

Hyponyms

• electrocardioversion

Coordinate terms

• defibrillation

Derived terms

• precardioversion
• postcardioversion

Related terms

• cardiovert

Translations

treatment of cardiac arrhythmia

• Catalan: cardioversió f
• Finnish: kardioversio
• Spanish: cardioversión f

See also

• cardioversion on Wikipedia.Wikipedia