atrioventricular block

1. 1.

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

   Synonymsheart blockAdams-Stokes syndromeStokes-Adams syndrome

   Broadercardiac arrhythmia

Questions about atrioventricular block

What does atrioventricular block mean?

atrioventricular block means "recurrent sudden attacks of unconsciousness caused by impaired conduction of the impulse that regulates the heartbeat".

What is another word for atrioventricular block?

Close synonyms include heart block, Adams-Stokes syndrome, Stokes-Adams syndrome. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is atrioventricular block a common word?

atrioventricular block is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.