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# Arrhythmia

Cardiologists noted confusion in the placement of *Conduction disorder of the heart (disorder)* as a broad grouping that subsumed arrhythmias and heart blocks. In common usage *arrhythmia* refers to a broad set of conditions that include conduction disorders, under which are heart blocks. The concept Cardiac arrhythmia (disorder) is a parent of Conduction disorder of the heart (disorder), and the active referent of the inactive concepts named *dysrhythmia* or *arrhythmia*.

For example,

* Arrhythmias, like 72654001 |Supraventricular arrhythmia (disorder)|, are under 698247007 |Cardiac arrhythmia (disorder)|

Conduction disorders include heart block, AV block, bundle branch block, conduction delay, and conduction defect, like 418341009 | Atrioventricular conduction disorder (disorder) |. Other arrhythmias were moved from under 44808001 |Conduction disorder of the heart (disorder)| and placed under 698247007 |Cardiac arrhythmia (disorder)|.

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