Early on in "Richard II," one of the "groundlings" seemed to suffer a fainting spell.
You ease yourself down into a tire rut, splaying your arms and legs in the attitude of someone stricken by a fainting spell.
After several days it was announced that Ms. Walters had contracted chickenpox, which gave her an infection that led to the fainting spell.
And so, before the patient left the hospital, she had a tilt-table test -- a study designed to provoke a fainting spell.
A week later, after a brisk uphill walk in cloudless California, I experienced a near fainting spell caused by low blood flow to the brain.
The diagnosis explains the fainting spell that Ms. Walters, who is 83, suffered in Washington last week, which led to her fall, and the lingering fever that has kept her hospitalized, first in Washington and now in Manhattan.
How did these women ever become so amazing — and how will future generations of girls embrace what makes them happy — if every time they want to do something a little dangerous, the media goes into a Victorian-era fainting spell?
She spent two nights in the cardiac-care unit as doctors looked for any of the irregular heart rhythms that could start as a fainting spell but might end in death.
In a statement, Boyer said that Steinbrenner had what he called a fainting spell after a memorial service for the Hall of Fame quarterback Otto Graham, a longtime friend who died earlier this month.
An average of 21.2 million viewers watched the 90-minute competition, which included a dramatic fainting spell by the contestant Marie Osmond (above, with her dancing partner, Jonathan Roberts).
"He recovered well in a few minutes and he's doing well ever since," Boyer said in the statement, noting that the testing was to ensure that what happened was nothing more than a fainting spell.
