Once, serious abnormal heart rhythms or arrhythmia (ah-RITH-me-ah) required open-heart surgery to treat. 1  Fortunately, this is rarely the case today. Thanks to advances in medicines and medical devices, there are now safer and much more comfortable treatment options for abnormal heart rhythms.
Rhododendron /ËroÊdÉËdÉndrÉn/ (from Ancient Greek á¿¥ÏÎ´Î¿Î½ rhÃ³don rose and Î´Î­Î½Î´ÏÎ¿Î½ dÃ©ndron tree) is a genus of 1,024 species of woody plants in the heath family (Ericaceae), either evergreen or deciduous, and found mainly in Asia, although it is also widespread throughout the Southern Highlands of the Appalachian Mountains of North America.
Rhododendron. RHODODENDRON. Throughout June and July the colorful flowers and shining foliage of the rhododendron beautify the mountain slopes of North America. The flowers are pink, rose, lilac, or purple. The species usually found in the East is the American, or great, rhododendron. The Carolina, or Catawba, rhododendron grows in the high Appalachians. A species called coast rhododendron is found on the Pacific coast (for picture in color, see Flowers, Wild Flowers).