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Definition of Stokes-Adams syndrome

1. Noun. Recurrent sudden attacks of unconsciousness caused by impaired conduction of the impulse that regulates the heartbeat.

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Literary usage of Stokes-Adams syndrome

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Diseases of the Heart and Arterial System: Designed to be a Practical by Robert Hall Babcock (1909)
"Heart-block is a more general term, since it includes not only the Stokes-Adams syndrome but all cases in which there is interference with the conduction of ..."

2. Diseases of the heart and arterial system: Designed to be a Practical by Robert Hall Babcock (1907)
"Stokes-Adams syndrome By this term is designated a very remarkable and obscure complex of symptoms which consists in a paroxysmal intensification of an ..."

3. Diseases of the Heart and Arterial System: Designed to be a Practical by Robert Hall Babcock (1905)
"Stokes-Adams syndrome By this term is designated a very remarkable and obscure complex of symptoms which consists in a paroxysmal intensification of an ..."

4. A Handbook of Medical Diagnosis: For the Use of Practitioners and Students by James Cornelius Wilson (1915)
"HEART BLOCK; THE STOKES- ADAMS SYNDROME. Definition. — A condition characterized by bradycardia, with transient attacks of vertigo and syncope, ..."

5. A Handbook of Medical Diagnosis: For the Use of Practitioners and Students by James Cornelius Wilson (1915)
"In many of the cases a positive diagnosis of the particular lesions cannot be made. VII. HEART BLOCK; THE Stokes-Adams syndrome. Definition. ..."

6. The Medical Clinics of North America by Richard J. Havel, K. Patrick Ober (1918)
"QUESTION BY A STUDENT: Are you more apt to have Stokes- Adams syndrome with partial block than with complete? DR. CHRISTIAN: It does not follow any definite ..."

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