This week Consumer Reports released news that arsenic was found in brown rice, white rice, rice breakfast cereals, organic rice baby cereal, and other rice productsââmany at worrisome levelsââin tests they performed.
First-degree heart block. First-degree AV block is defined as a PR interval longer than 0.2 seconds. Each atrial activation leads to a ventricular activation with a 1:1 correspondence.
Also found in: Dictionary, Thesaurus, Encyclopedia, Wikipedia. second-degree heart block. A form of atrioventricular block in which only some atrial impulses are conducted to the ventricles. Two variants exist: Mobitz I (Wenckebach) and Mobitz II. In Mobitz I, the P-R intervals become progressively longer until a QRS complex is dropped.