HYPERACUTE

Etymology

Adjective

hyperacute (comparative more hyperacute, superlative most hyperacute)

(medicine) Very acute.

(medicine, of T waves on ECGs) Tall-amplitude and asymmetrically peaked, often as an early finding in ST-elevation myocardial infarction.

Source: Wiktionary



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ASYSTOLE

(noun) absence of systole; failure of the ventricles of the heart to contract (usually caused by ventricular fibrillation) with consequent absence of the heart beat leading to oxygen lack and eventually to death


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