How to Use tachycardia in a Sentence

tachycardia

noun
  • This syndrome causes symptoms such as fever, nausea, chills, tachycardia, and headache.
    — Susan Scutti, CNN, 19 Oct. 2017
  • Supraventricular tachycardia had caused her heart to beat alarmingly fast and left her feeling faint.
    — Los Angeles Times, 14 Nov. 2022
  • Heart rate becomes a concern when your heart is beating too slowly (bradycardia) or too quickly (tachycardia).
    — Daryl Perry, USA TODAY, 29 Sep. 2022
  • Simpson has epilepsy and postural tachycardia syndrome, which affects her heart rate.
    — Tommy Tuberville, Newsweek, 6 Mar. 2025
  • Days later, the man was hospitalized with fever and tachycardia (an abnormally fast heart rate).
    — Tyler Freel, Outdoor Life, 4 Mar. 2026
  • Oliver had two episodes of ventricular tachycardia within his first 48 hours.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 28 Sep. 2019
  • In some people, consuming this amount rapidly can lead to serious events such as seizures, tachycardia and arrhythmia.
    — Bayliss Wagner, USA TODAY, 25 Nov. 2021
  • Anything higher than that is known as tachycardia, the fancy way of describing the sensation that your heart is galloping a mile a minute.
    — Rachel Nall, Msn, SELF, 18 Aug. 2022
  • One typical sign of anxiety and a panic attack is tachycardia, or a heart rate of more than 100 beats per minute (bpm).
    — Byclaudia Lopez Lloreda, science.org, 1 Mar. 2023
  • Sinus tachycardia — runs of rapid-fire heartbeats — suggests the vessel has gone from partially blocked to completely blocked.
    — Melissa Healy, latimes.com, 8 Mar. 2018
  • Slow and Fast Heart Rates A child's pulse rate can be normal, fast (tachycardia), or slow (bradycardia).
    — Vincent Iannelli, Parents, 30 July 2024
  • About one in four experienced episodes of ventricular tachycardia, a rapid heart rhythm that can become life-threatening if sustained.
    — Peter Burke, FOXNews.com, 17 Jan. 2026
  • One man’s Apple Watch alerted him to an unusually high heart rate, which led to a diagnosis of tachycardia.
    — Andy Meek, BGR, 21 July 2022
  • Her heart went into ventricular tachycardia, which is a condition in which the lower chambers of the heart (ventricles) beat very quickly.
    — Vagney Bradley, Houston Chronicle, 22 Feb. 2018
  • Gottfried died of recurrent ventricular tachycardia, an abnormal rhythm in the lower chambers of the heart.
    — NBC News, 13 Apr. 2022
  • Alyssa, 24, has a type of supraventricular tachycardia, a condition in which the heart beats very fast for a reason other than exercise, high fever or stress from time to time.
    — Aurelie Corinthios, PEOPLE.com, 29 Aug. 2019
  • If too much of the chemical gets into their systems, the result can be seizures, tachycardia (an abnormally fast heart rate), vomiting or other problems.
    — Seattle Times Staff, The Seattle Times, 24 Dec. 2017
  • Griffith noticed a commotion in the Connersville press area, where Mawbey had collapsed due to a heart condition called tachycardia.
    — IndyStar, 2 Mar. 2021
  • Ventricular tachycardia is another type of abnormal heart rhythm, in which an extremely fast heartbeat begins in the lower chambers of the heart.
    — Lori Oliwenstein, TIME, 12 Sep. 2024
  • The nursing home called one ambulance for a resident felled by tachycardia, an irregular heartbeat, and an hour later a second for a resident who couldn’t breathe.
    — Glenn Garvin, miamiherald, 22 Sep. 2017
  • When too much of the chemical gets into their canine systems, the result can be seizures, tachycardia (an abnormally fast heart rate), vomiting or other problems.
    — Karen Kaplan, latimes.com, 21 Dec. 2017
  • In some forms of tachycardia, like supraventricular tachycardia (SVT), the heart rate can rise above 220 beats per minute.
    — Vincent Iannelli, Parents, 30 July 2024
  • Underwood, who has a pre-existing condition called supraventricular tachycardia, which keeps her heart from maintaining a normal rhythm, then went a step further.
    — Charlotte Alter, Time, 18 Jan. 2018
  • In people with porphyrias, the heme precursors build up, causing disease that can present as abdominal pain, arm and leg pain, paresthesia, weakness, and tachycardia.
    — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 28 Apr. 2023
  • The doctor gave Lee an EKG and diagnosed him with supraventricular tachycardia.
    — Annalisa Merelli, Quartz, 20 Apr. 2023
  • In 2022, Brendon was rushed to the hospital for tachycardia, a condition that makes the heart beat abnormally fast.
    — Kierra Frazier, CBS News, 21 Mar. 2026
  • She has been diagnosed with POTS, post orthostatic tachycardia syndrome, which has caused heart problems.
    — cleveland, 2 June 2021
  • Both girls now have a host of problems, including postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome, which causes a person's heart rate to shoot up upon standing and lead to dizziness or fainting.
    — Ryan Prior, CNN, 12 Oct. 2020
  • And in this case, POTS stands for postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome.
    — Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes, 16 Aug. 2024
  • The cause of death was recurrent ventricular tachycardia, a heart condition, his longtime friend and publicist Glenn Schwartz announced.
    — Julie Washington, cleveland, 16 Apr. 2022

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