ANTIARRHYTHMIC

antiarrhythmic, antiarrhythmic drug, antiarrhythmic medication

(noun) a drug used to treat an abnormal heart rhythm

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Adjective

antiarrhythmic (not comparable)

(pharmaceutical effect) Used to treat or prevent (heart) arrhythmia (irregular beat).

Noun

antiarrhythmic (plural antiarrhythmics)

(pharmaceutical drug) A drug that treats or prevents (heart) arrhythmia (irregular beat).

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3 April 2025

WHOLE

(noun) an assemblage of parts that is regarded as a single entity; “how big is that part compared to the whole?”; “the team is a unit”


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The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.

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