Stokes-Adams syndrome

American  

[stohks-ad-uhmz] / ˈstoʊksˈæd əmz /

noun

Pathology.

1. unconsciousness accompanying atrioventricular heart block, sometimes characterized by weakness, irregular pulse, and intermittent convulsive or nonconvulsive seizures.

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Etymology

Origin of Stokes-Adams syndrome

Named after W. Stokes (1804–78), and R. Adams (1791–1875), Irish physicians

Example Sentences

The case was that of a woman forty-five years old, "who had a series of attacks of prolonged cardiac syncope, closely resembling Stokes-Adams syndrome, from which she recovered."

From Arteriosclerosis and Hypertension: with Chapters on Blood Pressure, 3rd Edition. by Warfield, Louis Marshall

So far as we now know all cases of the Stokes-Adams syndrome are caused by heart block which is only another name for disease in the auriculoventricular bundle.

From Arteriosclerosis and Hypertension: with Chapters on Blood Pressure, 3rd Edition. by Warfield, Louis Marshall

It should never be given to patients with very slow pulses, the subjects of Stokes-Adams syndrome.

From Arteriosclerosis and Hypertension: with Chapters on Blood Pressure, 3rd Edition. by Warfield, Louis Marshall

Stokes-Adams disease, or the Stokes-Adams syndrome, is a name applied to a combination of symptoms which was described by Stokes in 1846, and had been observed by Adams in 1827.

From Disturbances of the Heart by Osborne, Oliver T. (Oliver Thomas)