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Definition of Gallop rhythm
1. Noun. Cardiac rhythm characterized by the presence of an extra sound; can indicate a heart abnormality.
Medical Definition of Gallop rhythm
1. Heart rhythm like the gallop of a horse. (12 Dec 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gallop Rhythm
Literary usage of Gallop rhythm
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1908)
"Reference will be made only to those forms of gallop rhythm in which the extra
sound occurs ... Two well-recognized forms of diastolic gallop rhythm occur. ..."
2. International Clinics (1902)
"Second sound over mitral and tricuspid duplicated,— gallop rhythm. Appetite poor,
but patient sleeps well and feels comfortable when in bed. ..."
3. Pathological physiology of internal diseases by Albion Walter Hewlett (1916)
"gallop rhythm In gallop rhythm, three sounds, instead of two, are heard with each
heart cycle. If we omit from consideration the occurrence of split sounds, ..."
4. Monographic Medicine by Albion Walter Hewlett, Henry Leopold Elsner (1916)
"It has been suggested (on the ground of electrocardiogram;) that gallop rhythm
is a manifestation of injury to a branch of the His bundle going to one or ..."
5. A Handbook of Medical Diagnosis: For the Use of Practitioners and Students by James Cornelius Wilson (1915)
"The derangements of rhythm which may occur in health are: I. gallop rhythm in
which the Diastolic Pause is Shortened with the Addition of an Extra Sound of ..."
6. Diseases of the chest and the principles of physical diagnosis by George William Norris, Henry Robert Murray Landis, Edward Bell Krumbhaar (1920)
"... gallop rhythm (u-—w) " symbolic."—In this condition a third sound is introduced
into the cardiac cycle which occurs just before ventricular systole. ..."
7. Diseases of the Heart by Theodor von Jürgensen, Leopold Schrötter, Ludolf von Krehl (1908)
"The so-called gallop rhythm of the heart is a more important sign, ... It is the
generally accepted view that gallop rhythm is heard o when cardiac weakness ..."
8. Clinical lectures on diseases of the heart, lungs and pleura: Designed for by Joseph McIntyre Patton (1900)
"In true gallop rhythm two of these sounds are diastolic and the first diastolic
sound is ... Various descriptions have been given of the gallop rhythm. ..."
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