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'syncope' is a correct and usable word in written English.
In general, syncope is used as a technical term to describe the loss of consciousness or fainting, especially due to a temporary lack of oxygen to the brain. For example, a person who experiences syncope may suddenly feel dizzy or lightheaded before passing out.
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syncope
noun
A loss of consciousness when someone faints, a swoon.
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Fainting (syncope) may occur.
This results in a profound bradycardia that may cause fainting (syncope), a condition known as tachycardia-bradycardia syndrome.
Hantle for handful shows syncope (disappearance) of an unstressed vowel, partial assimilation of d to t before voiceless f, and subsequent loss of f in a triple consonant group.
Bradycardia caused by a dysfunction of the sinoatrial node (sinus bradycardia), the heart's natural pacemaker, often produces weakness, confusion, palpitations, and fainting (syncope).
This syncope may be used diagnostically, since faintness upon massage of one carotid sinus may suggest a narrowed carotid or basilar artery on the opposite side of the neck.
Patients with stenotic (narrowed) aortic or mitral valves may experience syncope during exercise; these patients are at high risk for sudden cardiac death.
One striking feature of Lydian is massive syncope (loss of interior sounds) and apocope (loss of final sounds), giving it a superficially very different appearance from its most immediate linguistic relatives.
Hypotension from an increase in the capacity of the blood vessels is a factor in fainting (see syncope).
Transient hypotension may occur as a normal reaction in certain forms of syncope but is not necessarily associated with organic disease.
The most common kind of syncope is ordinary fainting.
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Early in the course, she would get students to focus on Nabokov's use of the word 'syncope' to describe emigration in "Speak, Memory".
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