brady- +

(Greek: slow, slowness; delayed, tardy; a prefix used in the sense of being "abnormally slow")


bradyacusia
An abnormal dullness of hearing.
bradyarrhythmia
Any disturbance in the heart rhythm in which the ventricular-heart rate is abnormally slowed, usually to less than 60 beats per minute in an adult.
bradyarthria
Abnormally slow speech due to disease or dysfunction of the nervous system.
bradyauxesis
1. A form of heterauxesis, or the disproportionate growth of a part in relation to another part, in which the part grows more slowly than the whole.
2. The slower growth of one part of a structure or organism compared with that of the whole structure or whole organism; a form of heterauxesis (an unequal growth of a cell, or of a part of a plant).
bradycardia
A slow heart rate, usually defined as less than 60 beats per minute.

This can occur in normal people, particularly during sleep; trained athletes also usually have slow pulse and heart rates.

bradycardiac
Relating to, or characterized by, bradycardia (slowness of the heart beat).
bradycardiaphobia
A fear that one’s heart is beating too slowly and that they may be close to death.
bradycardic
A reference to bradycardia or an agent that acts to slow the pulse rate.
bradycinesia, bradykinesia, bradykinetic, bradypragia
1. Abnormal slowness of muscular movements, often associated with a diminution of the range of movement, typically seen in parkinsonism.
2. Slow or retarded muscular movement that may be organically or psychically determined. It is common in depressive states and is often observed in schizophrenia.
bradycrotic
Pertaining to, characterized by, or inducing slowness of pulse.
bradydiastole
Prolongation of the diastole (time in between ventricular, or muscular chambers, contractions) of the heart.
bradydysrhythmia
An abnormal heart rhythm with rate less than 60 beats per minute in an adult; the term bradyarrhythmia is usually used instead.
bradyecoia
A mild deafness (slow of hearing).
bradyesthesia
An abnormal slowness, or dullness, of sense perception.
bradygenesis
The lengthening of certain stages in embryonic development.

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