orthodromic
adjective
or·tho·drom·ic
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Medical Definition of orthodromic
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: proceeding or conducting in a normal direction
—used especially of a nerve impulse or fiber orthodromic neural stimulation
2
: characterized by orthodromic conduction
in orthodromic tachycardia, the atrial impulse conducts in an antegrade direction from the atria through the AV node— Norris Lai & Melvyn Rubenfire
Other Words from orthodromic
orthodromically
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