syncope
Example Sentences
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It is when children hold their breath when upset until they experience syncope, or passing out.
From Fox News
Heat syncope: More serious than cramping, this could potentially cause internal damage.
From Los Angeles Times
Patients were suffered symptoms ranging from vomiting and dizziness to syncope, a temporary loss of consciousness caused by falling blood pressure as people’s bodies are depleted of water.
From Washington Post
And Beethoven starts not on the downbeat, but on the third beat; he starts with a syncope, something that brings unrest in a rhythm.
From New York Times
Hofmann portrays this pervasive sense of syncope through rhythmic prose and powerful allusions to faith in an amoral world.
From New York Times
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