Capable of producing its own rhythm or beat, especially without external stimulation.
From 'auto-' (self) and 'rhythmic' (from Greek 'rhythmos' meaning measured flow). Medical term particularly used for cardiac physiology.
Your heart is autorhythmic—its pacemaker cells fire automatically without brain signals. Even an isolated heart will keep beating if kept oxygenated because the rhythm is built into the tissue itself.
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