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.
1 Subgenus Rhododendron L.: Small leaf or lepidotes (scales on the underside of the leaves). 2  3 sections, 462 species, type species: Rhododendron ferrugineum. 3  Subgenus Hymenanthes (Blume) K.Koch: Large leaf or elepidotes (without scales).