bradygastria

(brad-ē-gas'trē-ă),

Decreased rate of electrical pacemaker activity in the stomach, defined as less than 2 cycles/minute for at least 1 minute. Normal activity is defined as an electrical signal at a frequency of 2-4 cycles per minute using cutaneous electrogastrography. May be associated with nausea, gastroparesis, irritable bowel syndrome, and functional dyspepsia.

References in periodicals archive ?

Bradygastria is a decrease in the frequency of the slow wave [1-3].

The high value of this area indicates bradygastria in patients at fasting state.

Determining of Gastroparesis Disease from Electrogastrogram Signals Using Cramer-Rao Lower Bound and Power Spectral Density

Dysrhythmia of the stomach includes tachygastria, bradygastria and arrhythmia (shown in table 1), which can be connected with the motor disorder of stomach and corresponding clinical symptoms together in (Shah and Rodriguez, 1999).