Tachy Words: “acestachy” to “tachyzoite”Words that include: tacho-, tach-, tachy- (Latin: fast, speed, swift, rapid)acestachy:
A fast rate of healing.
auxetachy:
Rate of growth.
bradypnea:
Decrease in the rate of respiration.
cardiotachy:
Speed of the heart beat.
hemotachometer:
An instrument that measures the speed of blood flow.
hemotachometry:
The measurement of the speed of blood flow.
hemotachy:
Speed of the flow of blood.
hypacestachy:
Diminished rate of healing.
hyperacestachy:
Excessive rate of healing.
hypauxetachy:
Diminished rate of growth.
hyperauxetachy:
Excessive rate of growth.
hypertachopnea:
An excessive increase in the rate of respiration.
phototachometer, phototachometric, phototachometrical:
An apparatus for determining the velocity of light.
phototachometry:
The measurement of the velocity of light.
pneotachy:
A fast rate of respiration.
sphygmotachy:
The rate of the pulse.
tachistesthesia:
The recognition of intermittency of illumination; flicker perception.
tachistoscope, tachistoscopic, tachistoscopically:
An instrument by means of which objects may be presented to the eye for a brief measured period, a fraction of a second; one of its principal applications being the measurement of
tachogram:
1. A record in graph form produced by a tachograph.
2. In medicine, a graphic record of the movement and velocity of the blood current. tachograph, tachography:
1. An instrument that produces a record of the use and reading of a tachometer, especially one in a commercial vehicle or bus recording speeds and distances traveled. Essentially, a tachograph records the hours worked by a driver.
2. In medicine, the recording of the speed of the blood current. tachometer, tachometry:
A device used to determine the speed of rotation, typically of a vehicle’s crankshaft and usually in revolutions per minute. Also known as a "speedometer".
tachchyalimentation:
A process contributing to the postgastrectomy syndrome in which food rapidly enters the small intestine via a gastroenterostomy.
tachyarrhythmia:
A medical condition in which the hearbeat is fast and irregular.
tachyauxesis:
1. The disproportionately rapid growth of an organ or region as compared with the growth of the remainder of the body.
2. A situation in which a part grows more rapidly than the whole. tachycardia, tachycardiac, tachycardic, tachyrhythmia:
An excessively rapid heartbeat, typically regarded as a heart rate exceeding 100 beats per minute in a resting adult.
tachycinesis, tachycinetic, tachykinesis, tachykinetic:
Moving rapidly.
tachycrotic:
A reference to or characterized by a rapid pulse.
tachydysrhythmia:
An abnormal heart rhythm with a rate greater than 100 beats per minute in an adult; the term tachyarrhythmia is usually used instead.
tachygenesis, tachygenetic:
1. In medicine, the acceleration and compression of ancestral stages in embryonic development.
2. The sudden appearance of an organ in evolution; the part so appearing. tachygenic:
Appearing or developing suddenly.
tachyglossal:
A reference to a tongue: capable of being quickly thrust forth and retracted, as that of the ant-eater or snake.
tachyglossidae:
Echidnas (spiny anteater); family containing two or three species of small terrestrial, semifossorial, egg-laying mammals found in Australia and New Guinea.
Tachyglossus:
In zoology, the genus consisting of the typical echidnas.
tachygraph:
A tachygraphic manuscript.
tachygrapher, tachygraphist:
A writer of shorthand, a stenographer.
tachygraphy:
1. The shorthand system used by the ancient Greeks and Romans.
2. The abbreviated cursive writing used in medieval times for Latin and Greek. tachyiatry:
The art of fast healing.
tachylalia:
The abnormal rapidity of speech.
tachylogia:
The abnormal rapidity of speech.
tachymeter:
An instrument used in surveying to work out distances, elevations, and directions at speed.
tachymetry:
Enables the operator, by a single observation upon a rod, to obtain the necessary horizontal and vertical data for the determination of the three elements of position of a point on the surface of the earth.
tachyon:
A hypothetical elementary particle that always travels faster than the speed of light.
tachyphagia, tachyphagy:
1. Rapid or hasty eating; seen in some forms of regressed schizophrenia.
2. Food-grabbing; extreme rapidity of eating. It is commonly seen in regressed, deteriorated schizophrenics, and often such patients will grab any object, edible or not, put it into the mouth, and swallow it. tachyphasia:
Excessively fast talking.
tachyphemia:
The abnormal rapidity of speech.
tachyphrasia:
The abnormal rapidity of speech.
tachyphrenia:
Abnormally rapid mental activity.
tachyphylaxis:
1. Rapid immunization to a toxic dose of a substance by previously injecting tiny doses of the same substance.
2. Rapid appearance of progressive decrease in response following repetitive administration of a pharmacologically or physiologically active substance. 3. Also known as tachysynethis. tachypnea, tachypneic:
Excessive rapidity of breathing.
tachypnoea:
British spelling of tachypnea.
tachypragia:
Swiftness of action.
tachypsychia:
Abnormally rapid action of psychological processes.
tachyrhythmia:
1. Tachycardia.
2. Increase in the frequency of brain waves in electroencephalography up to 12 to 50 per second. tachysporous:
A reference to a plant that disperses its seeds quickly.
tachytely, tachytelic:
1. A significantly fast rate of evolutionary change, that occurs as populations shift from one major adaptive zone to another.
2. Evolution at a rapid rate resulting in differential selection and fixation of new types. tachythanatous:
Killing quickly, rapidly fatal.
tachytrophism:
Rapid or increased metabolism.
tachyzoite:
A stage of development of protozoan coccidial (a subclass of protozoan) parasites characterized by very rapid multiplication.
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