SYNCOPE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does syncope mean? 

• SYNCOPE (noun)
  The noun SYNCOPE has 2 senses:

1. a spontaneous loss of consciousness caused by insufficient blood to the brain

2. (phonology) the loss of sounds from within a word (as in 'fo'c'sle' for 'forecastle')

  Familiarity information: SYNCOPE used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SYNCOPE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A spontaneous loss of consciousness caused by insufficient blood to the brain

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Synonyms:

deliquium; faint; swoon; syncope

Hypernyms ("syncope" is a kind of...):

loss of consciousness (the occurrence of a loss of the ability to perceive and respond)

Sense 2

Meaning:

(phonology) the loss of sounds from within a word (as in 'fo'c'sle' for 'forecastle')

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

syncopation; syncope

Hypernyms ("syncope" is a kind of...):

articulation (the aspect of pronunciation that involves bringing articulatory organs together so as to shape the sounds of speech)

Domain category:

phonemics; phonology (the study of the sound system of a given language and the analysis and classification of its phonemes)

Derivation:

syncopate (omit a sound or letter in a word)

 Context examples 

It can include periods of reduced, unstable, or abnormal blood pressure with near syncope, or episodes of syncope.

(Hemodynamic Instability, NCI Thesaurus)

An electrocardiographic finding of ventricular tachycardia that is associated with syncope and/or cardiac arrest triggered by emotion or exercise in patients whose baseline ECG is normal.

(Catecholaminergic Polymorphic Ventricular Tachycardia by ECG Finding, NCI Thesaurus/ACC)

The light that long ago had struck me into syncope, recalled in this vision, seemed glidingly to mount the wall, and tremblingly to pause in the centre of the obscured ceiling.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Extremely weak; threatened with syncope.

(Fainting, NCI Thesaurus)