syncope
- n a spontaneous loss of consciousness caused by insufficient blood to the brain
- n (phonology) the loss of sounds from within a word (as in `fo'c'sle' for `forecastle')
- For example, a study of VAERS reports of fainting among Gardasil recipients the medical term is syncope published in the Journal of the American Medical Association this .
- Bleeding "to syncope" (fainting) was often prescribed, and if a patient was very weak and his veins hard to come at, "recourse should be had to the jugglars.
- Mudge's diagnosis, delivered in a televised press conference: no life-threatening heartbeat arrhythmia, but instead neurocardiogenic syncope, a fairly benign fainting condition .