Greetings MTs! I do QA for two hospitals and ran across the word 'tachycardiac'. At first I thought it was a typo, but later it turns out it was not. Is this an older form of the word tachycardic? Even when googling tachycardiac, the results show tachycardia or tachycardic. I did find an entry from englishforums.com that explained tachycardiac as an adjective only and tachycardic as both adjective and noun (?!). Please advise!
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