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  2. Tachyphylaxis - Wikipedia

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    Tachyphylaxis (Greek ταχύς, tachys, "rapid", and φύλαξις, phylaxis, "protection") is a medical term describing an acute, sudden decrease in response to a drug after its administration (i.e., a rapid and short-term onset of drug tolerance). [1] It can occur after an initial dose or after a series of small doses.

  3. List of medical roots, suffixes and prefixes - Wikipedia

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    Example(s) tachy-denoting something as fast, irregularly fast Greek τᾰχῠ́ς (takhús), fast, quickly tachycardia, tachypnea-tension, -tensive: pressure: Latin tēnsiō, stretching, extension, tension hypertension: terato-Monster Greek τέρᾰς (téras) teratoma, teratogen tetan-rigid, tense Greek τέτανος (tétanos) tetanus ...

  4. Tachypnea - Wikipedia

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    Tachypnea, also spelt tachypnoea, is a respiratory rate greater than normal, resulting in abnormally rapid and shallow breathing. [1]In adult humans at rest, any respiratory rate of 12–20 per minute is considered clinically normal, with tachypnea being any rate above that. [2]

  5. Supraventricular tachycardia - Wikipedia

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    Supraventricular tachycardia (SVT) is an umbrella term for fast heart rhythms arising from the upper part of the heart. [2] This is in contrast to the other group of fast heart rhythms – ventricular tachycardia, which start within the lower chambers of the heart. [2]

  6. Ventricular tachycardia - Wikipedia

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    Ventricular tachycardia (V-tach or VT) is a cardiovascular disorder in which fast heart rate occurs in the ventricles of the heart. [3] Although a few seconds of VT may not result in permanent problems, longer periods are dangerous; and multiple episodes over a short period of time are referred to as an electrical storm.

  7. Tachycardia - Wikipedia

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    Thus this pair is an example of when a particular prescription (which may have been tenable 50 or 100 years earlier) can no longer be invariably enforced without violating idiom. But the power to differentiate in an idiomatic way is not lost, regardless, because when the specification of physiologic tachycardia is needed, that phrase aptly ...

  8. List of medical symptoms - Wikipedia

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    [1] [2] Patients observe these symptoms and seek medical advice from healthcare professionals. Because most people are not diagnostically trained or knowledgeable, they typically describe their symptoms in layman's terms, rather than using specific medical terminology. This list is not exhaustive.

  9. Medical terminology - Wikipedia

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    In forming or understanding a word root, one needs a basic comprehension of the terms and the source language.The study of the origin of words is called etymology.For example, if a word was to be formed to indicate a condition of kidneys, there are two primary roots – one from Greek (νεφρός nephr(os)) and one from Latin (ren(es)).