Cardiology words?

Question

What is the medical term for discribing elavated contraction force that is too extreme.

Would it be hypercardia?

Answer 1

There really is no term for when the heart beats "too forcefully", because it just doesn't happen -- the heart is precisely regulated by the amount of resistance against which it must work, and does not ever really contract harder than that. However, "greater inotropy" is the closest term one can get to what you're asking.

Tachycardia is the term for when the heart is beating too fast, and fibrillation is the term for when the heart beats so fast that its contraction is too disorganized to effectively provide output (and rapidly leads to failure) -- these are somewhat related to what you're asking, but not really the same because they refer to rate, and not force

Answer 2

Hypercardia = Hypertrophy of the heart.
Hypertrophy = The enlargement or overgrowth of an organ or part due to an increase in size of its constituent cells.

You may be thinking of
- Ventricular tachycardia - Fast and usually regular impulses come from the ventricles and cause a very rapid heart rate.
- Atrial fibrillation — Rapid, uneven contractions in the upper heart chambers (atria), which cause the lower chambers (ventricles) to beat irregularly.
- Idiopathic high-cardiac-output state http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/picrender.fcgi?artid=293305&blobtype=pdf
Palpitations - the feeling that the heart is beating too fast, too hard

Answer 3

"inotropy" describes the amount of force the heart generates with each heart beat.

so i guess you could say "increased inotropic force" or "overactive inotropy" or something like that. i don't know of any medically diagnostic term for what you've described.