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ATRIOVENTRICULAR BLOCK
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Recurrent sudden attacks of unconsciousness caused by impaired conduction of the impulse that regulates the heartbeat
Synonyms:
Adams-Stokes syndrome; atrioventricular block; heart block; Stokes-Adams syndrome
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("atrioventricular block" is a kind of...):
arrhythmia; cardiac arrhythmia (an abnormal rate of muscle contractions in the heart)
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