HEART BLOCK

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does heart block mean? 

• HEART BLOCK (noun)
  The noun HEART BLOCK has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: HEART BLOCK used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HEART BLOCK (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

Adams-Stokes syndrome; atrioventricular block; heart block; Stokes-Adams syndrome

Hypernyms ("heart block" is a kind of...):

arrhythmia; cardiac arrhythmia (an abnormal rate of muscle contractions in the heart)

 Context examples 

In a minority of cases, it is associated with congenital heart block, hepatitis, or thrombocytopenia.

(Neonatal Lupus Erythematosus, NCI Thesaurus)

The vast majority of patients present with complete heart block and a minority with partial heart block.

(Cystic Tumor of Atrioventricular Node, NCI Thesaurus)

Patients may present with heart block, congestive heart failure, or anginal symptoms.

(Cardiomyopathy in Chagas' Disease, NCI Thesaurus)

It may be associated with muscle weakness, heart block, hearing loss, ataxia and short stature.

(Kearns-Sayre Syndrome, NCI Thesaurus)