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Definition of Adams-stokes syndrome
1. Noun. Recurrent sudden attacks of unconsciousness caused by impaired conduction of the impulse that regulates the heartbeat.
Generic synonyms: Arrhythmia, Cardiac Arrhythmia
Medical Definition of Adams-stokes syndrome
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Adams-stokes Syndrome
Literary usage of Adams-stokes syndrome
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Diseases of the heart and aorta by Arthur Douglass Hirschfelder (1918)
"Since then the condition of persistent extreme brady- cardia with syncopal or
convulsive seizures has been known as the Adams-Stokes syndrome, though it may ..."
2. Monographic Medicine by Albion Walter Hewlett, Henry Leopold Elsner (1916)
"Auricular fibrillation and complete heart-block: a description of a case of
Adams-Stokes' syndrome, including the post-mortem examination. ..."
3. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1907)
"... serve to explain very exactly the manifestations occurring in the Adams-Stokes
syndrome. The characteristic symptoms are: (1) Slow arterial pulse, 30, ..."
4. Transactions of the Indiana State Medical Association by Indiana State Medical Association (1907)
"... leading to septi- caemic symptoms, in the course of which the Adams-Stokes
syndrome appeared. The autopsy showed anaemic necrosis of the muscular septum ..."
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