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Heart Block

Definition: Heart Block

Heart Block

Noun

1. 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 Block

Synonym: atrioventricular block (n). (additional references)
Synonym by domain: blockading (medicine).

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Crosswords: Heart Block

English words defined with "heart block": calcium blocker, calcium-channel blockerflutter. (references)
Specialty definitions using "heart block": Bundle-Branch BlockSick Sinus Syndrome. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Heart Block

DomainTitle

Books

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Photo Album: Heart Block

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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..

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Heart Block

SubjectTopicQuote

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.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Heart Block

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
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.

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Modern Translations: Heart Block

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

   

Portuguese

  

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)

   

Spanish

  

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)

   

Swedish

  

hjärtblock. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Heart Block

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.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Heart Block


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

48 65 61 72 74      42 6C 6F 63 6B

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001000 01100101 01100001 01110010 01110100 00100000 01000010 01101100 01101111 01100011 01101011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#72 &#101 &#97 &#114 &#116 &#32 &#66 &#108 &#111 &#99 &#107

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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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Images: Photo Album
6. Quotations: Non-fiction
7. Expressions: Internet
8. Translations: Modern
9. Anagrams
10. Orthography
11. Bibliography


  

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