Stokes-Adams syndrome

[stohks-ad-uhmz]

noun

Pathology.

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

Word History and Origins

Origin of Stokes-Adams syndrome¹

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."

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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.

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

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