Catching and holding a particle or an electrical impulse originating elsewhere. [L. capio, pp. -tus, to take, seize]
- atrial c. control of the atria for one or more beats after a period of independent beating, as in incomplete AV block or in junctional or ventricular ectopic beats or tachycardias by a retrograde impulse.
- electron c. a mode of radioactive disintegration, in which an orbital electron, usually from the K shell, is captured by the nucleus, converting a proton into a neutron with ejection of a neutrino and emission of a gamma ray, and emission of characteristic x-rays as the missing K-shell electron is replaced. SYN: K c..
- K c. SYN: electron c..
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cap·ture (kapґchər) 1. to seize or catch; to take control over. 2. the coalescence of an atomic nucleus and a subatomic particle, usually resulting in an unstable mass.Medical dictionary. 2011.