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Your heart deciding to take the scenic route, under 60 beats a minute.
means A slower-than-normal heart rate, typically defined as fewer than 60 beats per minute in adults.
from Built from Greek parts: 'brady-' meaning slow, and 'kardia' meaning heart — the same 'kardia' that gives us 'cardiac' and 'cardiology.' Its opposite, tachycardia, uses 'tachys,' Greek for swift, so the two words form a matched pair describing the heart's slow and fast extremes.
- athletes have it
- elite athletes often sit at 40 bpm, healthy
- the flip side
- tachycardia is its panicky overachieving cousin
- cause check
- can signal thyroid issues or electrical wiring faults
- named origin
- greek bradys meaning slow, kardia meaning heart