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Stokes-Adams syndrome
[ stohks-ad-uhmz ]
noun
, Pathology.
- unconsciousness accompanying atrioventricular heart block, sometimes characterized by weakness, irregular pulse, and intermittent convulsive or nonconvulsive seizures.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of Stokes-Adams syndrome1
Named after W. Stokes (1804–78), and R. Adams (1791–1875), Irish physicians
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Example Sentences
The case was that of a woman forty-five years old, "who had a series of attacks of prolonged cardiac syncope, closely resembling Stokes-Adams syndrome, from which she recovered."
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So far as we now know all cases of the Stokes-Adams syndrome are caused by heart block which is only another name for disease in the auriculoventricular bundle.
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It should never be given to patients with very slow pulses, the subjects of Stokes-Adams syndrome.
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