cardioversion
noun
cardioversion is a noun meaning “The treatment of cardiac arrhythmia, either with medication or by use of a machine (a cardioverter) that delivers a controlled electric current” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled C-A-R-D-I-O-V-E-R-S-I-O-N, and it appears about once in every 19 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of cardioversion is cardioversions.
What does cardioversion mean?
noun
- 1
The treatment of cardiac arrhythmia, either with medication or by use of a machine (a cardioverter) that delivers a controlled electric current.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of cardioversion
- cardioversions plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is cardioversion?
Cardioversion appears about once in every 19 million words in written English, the 133,440th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Cardioversion in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense treatment of cardiac arrhythmia:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| Spanish | cardioversión |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does cardioversion come from?
From cardio- (“heart”) + -version (“changing”). Compare reversion and conversion.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).