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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An occasional temporary stoppage or extreme slowing of the pulse as a result of heart block, causing dizziness, fainting, and sometimes convulsions.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[After Robert Adams, (1791–1875) and William Stokes, (1804–1878), Irish physicians.]
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