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wolff-parkinson-white syndrome

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.90 in modern English

Syllables
wolf-f--parkin-son-white syn-drome
IPA
54
Scrabble Score
27
Letters
7
Syllables
17
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A preexcitation syndrome caused by the presence of an abnormal accessory electrical conduction pathway (the bundle of Kent) between the atria and the ventricles.

Uncountable

Etymology

Named after Louis Wolff, John Parkinson, and Paul Dudley White, who described the ECG findings in 1930.

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Questions

What does wolff-parkinson-white syndrome mean?
A preexcitation syndrome caused by the presence of an abnormal accessory electrical conduction pathway (the bundle of Kent) between the atria and the ventricles.
Where does wolff-parkinson-white syndrome come from?
Named after Louis Wolff, John Parkinson, and Paul Dudley White, who described the ECG findings in 1930.

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