Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun heart_block

1 sense of heart block

Sense 1
heart block, Adams-Stokes syndrome, Stokes-Adams syndrome, atrioventricular block -- (recurrent sudden attacks of unconsciousness caused by impaired conduction of the impulse that regulates the heartbeat)
       => cardiac arrhythmia, arrhythmia -- (an abnormal rate of muscle contractions in the heart)