Cardiac

A blood clot that forms inside the blood vessel or cavity of the heart.

A medical term used to describe the sensation which can be felt with the hand when it is placed on the chest wall in a patient with a very loud murmur, which is associated with vibrations of sufficient intensity for them to be felt at the surface of the chest.

A serious condition also called Stokes-Adams disease; impulses from the heart’s upper chambers (the atria) are completely blocked from reaching the heart’s lower chambers (the ventricles). To make up for this, the ventricles use their own “backup” pacemaker with its slower rate