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proarrhythmic

adjective/ˌprəʊəˈrɪðmɪk/

C2CEFR level
90/100Rarity: very rare
TechnicalRegister

Having the capacity to induce a new or worsened arrhythmia.

Some antiarrhythmic agents are paradoxically proarrhythmic in patients with structural heart disease.

Topic: Cardiology in Medical English

Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.

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