| Adams-Stokes disease | <syndrome> Transient asystole or ventricular fibrillation in the presence of atrioventricular block. (12 Dec 1998) |
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| Adams-Stokes syncope | Syncope due to complete atrioventricular block. (05 Mar 2000) |
| adams-stokes syndrome | <syndrome> Transient asystole or ventricular fibrillation in the presence of atrioventricular block. (12 Dec 1998) |
| Cheyne-Stokes psychosis | A mental state characterised by anxiety and restlessness, accompanying Cheyne-Stokes respiration. (05 Mar 2000) |
| cheyne-stokes respiration | A pattern of breathing with a gradual increase in the depth of respiration to a maximum, followed by a progressive decrease in the depth of respiration resulting in apnoea, characteristically seen in coma associated with severe neurological insult. (27 Sep 1997) |
| Gritti-Stokes amputation | Supracondylar amputation of the femur, the patella being preserved and applied to the end of the bone, its articular cartilage being removed so as to obtain union. Synonym: Gritti's operation. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Morgagni-Adams-Stokes syndrome | <syndrome> Transient asystole or ventricular fibrillation in the presence of atrioventricular block. (12 Dec 1998) |
| Stokes-Adams disease | <syndrome> Transient asystole or ventricular fibrillation in the presence of atrioventricular block. (12 Dec 1998) |
| Stokes-Adams syndrome | <syndrome> Transient asystole or ventricular fibrillation in the presence of atrioventricular block. (12 Dec 1998) |
| Stokes amputation | A modification of the Gritti-Stokes amputation in that the line of section of the femur is slightly higher. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Stokes' law | A muscle lying above an inflamed mucous or serous membrane is frequently the seat of paralysis, a relationship of the rate of fall of a small sphere in a viscous fluid; applicable to centrifugation of macromolecules, the wavelength of light emitted by a fluorescent material is longer than that of the radiation used to excite the fluorescence. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Stokes, Sir George Gabriel | <person> British physicist and mathematician, 1819-1903. See: stoke, Stokes' law, Stokes' law. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Stokes, Sir William | <person> Irish surgeon, 1839-1900. See: Stokes amputation, Gritti-Stokes amputation. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Stokes, William | <person> Irish physician, 1804-1878. See: Stokes' law, Cheyne-Stokes psychosis, Cheyne-Stokes respiration, Stokes-Adams disease, Adams-Stokes disease, Morgagni-Adams-Stokes syndrome. (05 Mar 2000) |
| annular ligament of the radius | The ligament that encircles and holds the head of the radius in the radial notch of the ulna, forming the proximal radioulnar joint and enabling pronation/supination of forearm; receives the radial collateral ligament of the elbow. Synonym: ligamentum annulare radii, ligamentum orbiculare radii, orbicular ligament of radius. (05 Mar 2000) |