Other forms: palpitations
A palpitation is a rapid fluttering of the heart. Heart palpitations, cause palpitations, palpitations at night.
It is nearly always plural and is the sensation rather than a diagnosis, since most are harmless and caused by caffeine, stress or tiredness. The word means a throbbing, from the same root as palpable.
1nounpalpitationA rapid fluttering of the heart.
“Too much coffee gives me palpitations, so I switched to tea.”
palpitation is a sensation.
Latin palpitatio comes from palpitare, to throb, from palpare, to touch.
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From Middle French palpitation, from Latin palpitatio.
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