atrial

English

Etymology

From atrium +‎ -al.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈeɪtɹi.əl/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Adjective

atrial (not comparable)

1. Of or pertaining to an atrium, especially the atrium of the heart.
   • 2024 February 13, “Understanding Your Heart Rate”, in Emory Healthcare‎^[1]:

     The most common type of irregular heartbeat is atrial fibrillation or AFib. It is estimated that between three and six million people in the United States have AFib.

Derived terms

• atrial fibrillation
• atrial natriuretic peptide
• atrial tachycardia
• biatrial
• cavoatrial
• interatrial
• intra-atrial
• intraatrial
• intra-atrial conduction time
• midatrial
• nonatrial
• paroxysmal atrial tachycardia
• periatrial
• postatrial
• preatrial
• proatrial
• sinoatrial
• subatrial
• transatrial
• triatrial
• uniatrial
• venoatrial
• ventriculoatrial
• visceroatrial

Translations

Of, or pertaining to an atrium

• Catalan: atrial
• Finnish: atriaali
• French: atrial (fr)
• Italian: atriale (it)
• Polish: atrialny
• Portuguese: atrial
• Spanish: atrial, auricular (es)

Anagrams

• Altair, lariat, latria, talari

Catalan

Etymology

From atri +‎ -al.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ə.tɾiˈal]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [a.tɾiˈal]

Adjective

atrial m or f (masculine and feminine plural atrials)

1. atrial

Further reading

• “atrial”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “atrial”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
• “atrial” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.

Portuguese

Etymology

From átrio (“atrium”) +‎ -al.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /a.tɾiˈaw/ [a.tɾɪˈaʊ̯], (faster pronunciation) /aˈtɾjaw/ [aˈtɾjaʊ̯]

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ɐ.tɾiˈal/ [ɐ.tɾiˈaɫ], (faster pronunciation) /ɐˈtɾjal/ [ɐˈtɾjaɫ]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ɐ.tɾiˈal/ [ɐ.tɾiˈaɫ], (faster pronunciation) /ɐˈtɾjal/ [ɐˈtɾjaɫ]
  • (Southern Portugal) IPA^(key): /ɐ.tɾiˈa.li/, (faster pronunciation) /ɐˈtɾja.li/

• Rhymes: (Portugal) -al, (Brazil) -aw
• Hyphenation: a‧tri‧al

Adjective

atrial m or f (plural atriais)

1. (anatomy) atrial (pertaining to the heart's atrium)

   Synonym: auricular

Spanish

Etymology

From atrio +‎ -al.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aˈtɾjal/ [aˈt̪ɾjal]
• Rhymes: -al
• Syllabification: a‧trial

Adjective

atrial m or f (masculine and feminine plural atriales)

1. atrial

Anagrams

• litará, litara