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ANTIDROMIC
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Dictionary entry overview: What does antidromic mean?
• ANTIDROMIC (adjective)
The adjective ANTIDROMIC has 1 sense:
1. conducting nerve impulses in a direction opposite to normal
Familiarity information: ANTIDROMIC used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Conducting nerve impulses in a direction opposite to normal
Similar:
abnormal; unnatural (not normal; not typical or usual or regular or conforming to a norm)
Domain category:
physiology (the branch of the biological sciences dealing with the functioning of organisms)
Context examples
During antidromic tachycardia the QRS complex is preexcited.
(Atrioventricular Reentrant Tachycardia by ECG Finding, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)
An electrocardiographic finding of a regular supraventricular tachycardia which utilizes an atrioventricular bypass tract as its retrograde limb (orthodromic tachycardia) or as its antegrade limb (antidromic tachycardia).
(Atrioventricular Reentrant Tachycardia by ECG Finding, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)
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