Any deviation from normal heart impulses (arrhythmias) is clinically referred to as a:
A. fibrillation
B. flutter
C. vasospasm
D. dysrhythmia
d
Rationale: Any deviation from the heart's normal orderly sequences of impulses is a disturbance of the rhythm and is called an arrhythmia or dysrhythmia.
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