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wenckebach period

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Main Entry: Wencke·bach period
Pronunciation: 'we[ng]-k&-"bäk-
Function: noun
: WENCKEBACH PHENOMENON
Wenckeábach /'ve[ng]-k&-"bäk,/ Karel Frederik(1864–1940), Dutch internist. Wenckebach held professorships in internal medicine at Groningen, Netherlands, at Strasbourg, and at Vienna. His areas of research included embryologicalproblems and the pathology of heart diseases and the circulation of the blood. In 1914 he published classic descriptions of various forms of cardiac arrhythmia. He was the first to demonstrate thevalue of quinine in the treatment of paroxysmal fibrillation. In 1928 he established a mechanical theory of cardiac pain in coronary occlusion.
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Wenckebach period Wenck·e·bach period (věn'kə-bāk', -bäKH')
n.
A sequence of cycles in the electrocardiogram ending in a dropped beat due to atrioventricular block, with the preceding cycles showing progressively lengthening P-R intervals; the P-R interval following the dropped beat is again shortened.

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