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Definition: Heart Block |
Heart BlockNoun1. Recurrent sudden attacks of unconsciousness caused by impaired conduction of the impulse that regulates the heartbeat. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonym: Heart BlockSynonym: atrioventricular block (n). (additional references) |
| Synonym by domain: blockading (medicine). |
Crosswords: Heart Block |
| English words defined with "heart block": calcium blocker, calcium-channel blocker ♦ flutter. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "heart block": Bundle-Branch Block ♦ Sick Sinus Syndrome. (references) |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | ![]() | A pacemaker to prevent heart block is being passed into the patient's right ventricle ... / WHO p.Credit: National Library of Medicine; photo by T. Farkas.. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | A patient has a heart block. (references) | |
Heart block is a condition in which the electrical signal cannot travel normally down the special pathways to the ventricles. (references) | ||
Heart rhythm abnormalities such as tachycardia (fast heart rate) and heart block (impaired conduction of cardiac impulses within the heart) are also common. (references) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
first degree heart block | 7 |
third degree heart block | 6 |
congenital heart block | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "heart block"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | hjerteblok (atrioventricular block, block, blockade, cardiac block, heart bloc, heart-block), overledningsblok (atrioventricular block, block, blockade, cardiac block, heart-block), ledningsblok (atrioventricular block, block, blockade, cardiac block, heart-block), blokering (blanketing, block, blockade, blockage, blocking, cardiac block, choking, hang-up, heart-block, immobilisation, immobilization, interlock, mute, obscuration, putting on the skid, scotching, skidding, spiking, stopping), blokade (block, blockade, blocking, cardiac block, heart-block, lock), blok (atrioventricular block, bay, block, block of houses, block of lenses, blockade, cardiac block, generating unit, heart-block, pad, pig, platoon, pulley, slab, switch bay). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | hartblok (atrioventricular block, block, block dissociation, blockade, cardiac block, heart bloc, heart-block), blokkering (atrioventricular block, binding, block, blockade, blockage, blocking, cardiac block, choking, heart-block, immobilisation, immobilization, infiltration, interlock, jamming, locking, mute, muting, noise suppression, putting on the skid, skidding, squelch, stopping), blokkage (atrioventricular block, block, blockade, cardiac block, heart-block), blokkade (atrioventricular block, block, blockade, blocking, cardiac block, heart-block, infiltration), blok (atrioventricular block, block, block and fall, block of houses, block section, blockade, blotch, cardiac block, chak, chunk of wood, cube, flitch billet, heart-block, ingot, non-ferrous ingot, outlet area, pad, pulley, rigging of blocks, slab, tackle, turnout area). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | sydänkatkos (atrioventricular block, A-V block, block, cardiac block), sydänblokki (atrioventricular block, A-V block, block, cardiac block). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
French | blocage du coeur, blocage cardiaque (heart bloc), blocage, bloc (heart-block). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Herzblock (atrioventricular block, A-V block, block, blockade, cardiac block, heart bloc, heart-block), Blockade (atrioventricular block, A-V block, block, blockade, blocking, cardiac block, heart-block, infiltration, quad), Block (atrioventricular block, A-V block, bar, bent, bloc, block, block and fall, block of lenses, blockade, blocks, boiler unit, bolt, book, brick, cardiac block, chunk, chunk of knowledge, crossbar, faction, flitch billet, generating unit, heart-block, ingot, knowledge chunk, log, non-ferrous ingot, pad, power station unit, pulley, rigging of blocks, Square, stocks, tablet, tackle, trestle, turbine unit, unit, wall). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | αποκλεισμός καρδιακός (atrioventricular block, A-V block, block, cardiac block), αποκλεισμός (atrioventricular block, A-V block, ban, block, blockade, blockage, cardiac block, exclusion, expulsion, heart-block). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | blocco cardiaco (atrioventricular block, A-V block, block, blockade, cardiac block, heart bloc, heart-block), blocco (atrioventricular block, A-V block, barrier, bloc, block, blockade, blockage, blocking, building block, cardiac block, deadlock, detent, gross, ground facilities, heart-block, immobilisation, immobilization, interlocking, jam, lock, lock out, lump, pad, slab, stoppage, unit). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | earthay ockblay bloqueio cardíaco (atrioventricular block, A-V block, block, blockade, cardiac block, heart bloc, heart-block), bloqueio (atrioventricular block, A-V block, binding, blanking, block, blockade, blockage, bolting, cardiac block, heart-block, interlock, jamming, latching, lock, locking, mute). (various references) bloqueo cardíaco (atrioventricular block, A-V block, block, blockade, cardiac block, heart bloc, heart-block), bloqueo (atrioventricular block, A-V block, blanking, block, blockade, blockage, blocking, cardiac block, choking, clutching, congestion, deadlock, freezing, heart-block, immobilisation, immobilization, interlock, lock, lock out, locking, lock-out, mute, protection, tie up, whitewash). (various references) hjärtblock. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-c-e-h-k-l-o-r-t" | |
-2 letters: bachelor, brocatel, chelator, chlorate, trochlea. | |
-3 letters: backhoe, batcher, bechalk, becloak, blacker, blather, bloater, blocker, botcher, brachet, bracket, brocket, brothel, cholate, cholera, chorale, choreal, chortle, earlock, hackler, halbert, hotcake, kolache, loather, locater, rathole, tackler, trachle, trochal. | |
-4 letters: backer, balker, bather, bertha, bleach, blotch, boatel, boater, bolter, borate, boreal, bother, breach, breath, broach, broche, cablet, calker, cartel, chalet, chalot, choker, choler, choral, chorea, claret, clothe, coaler, coater, cobalt, colter, corbel, hacker, hackle, halter, harlot, hector, herbal, hocker, keblah, klatch, labret, lacker, lather, lector, loathe, lobate, locate, locker, locket, oblate, ochrea, orache, oracle, rachet, racket, rackle, rebato, recoal, rectal, relock, retack, rhebok, rochet, rocket, rotche, tacker, tackle, talker, thaler, thecal, tocher, troche. | |
-5 letters: abhor, abler, abort, acerb, actor, alert, alter, altho, artel, baker, baler, batch, bathe, beach, belch, berth, black, blare, blate, bleak, blear, bleat, bloat, block, bloke, boart, boche, bohea, bolar, boral, botch, botel, brace, brach, bract, brake, break, brock, broke, broth, caber, cable, carbo, caret, carle, carob, carol, carte, cater, ceorl, chalk, chare, chark, chart, cheat, chela, chert, choke, chore, claro, clear, cleat, clerk, cloak, cloth, coble, cobra, coral, crake, crate, creak, croak, earth, eclat, hacek, haler, haole, hater, heart, helot, horal, hotel, kebar, ketch, ketol, korat, labor, lacer, laker, larch, latch, later, lathe, latke, leach, letch, loach, loath, lobar, lotah, oater, obeah, ocher, ochre, ocker, ocrea, octal, orach, orate, other, ratch, ratel, rathe, reach, react, recta, recto, rehab, retch, roach, roble, rotch, taber, table, tabor, tache, taker, taler, taroc, tarok, teach, thack, theca, thole, throb, throe, toker, tolar, torah, torch, trace, track, troak, trock, troke. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)48 65 61 72 74      42 6C 6F 63 6B |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001000 01100101 01100001 01110010 01110100 00100000 01000010 01101100 01101111 01100011 01101011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)H e a r t   B l o c k |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0048 0065 0061 0072 0074      0042 006C 006F 0063 006B |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)427167848623678816977 |
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