bundle branch block

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bundle branch block (plural bundle branch blocks)

  1. (pathology) A heart condition in which the electrical impulses controlling the pace of the heart are not transmitted normally through either of the bundle branches.
    • 1971, Leo Schamroth, The disorders of cardiac rhythm, page 185:
      The electrocardiogram manifests with a basic second degree conduction block, e.g. a 2:1 ratio associated with a bundle branch block pattern.

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  • BBB (initialism)

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