syncope
pronunciation
How to pronounce syncope in British English:
UK [ˈsɪŋkəpi]
How to pronounce syncope in American English:
US ['sɪŋkəpɪ]
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- Noun:
- a spontaneous loss of consciousness caused by insufficient blood to the brain
- (phonology) the loss of sounds in the interior of a word (as in `fo'c'sle' for `forecastle')
Word Origin
- syncope (n.)
- 1520s, "contraction of a word by omission of middle sounds or letters," from Latin syncope "contraction of a word by elision," from Greek synkope "contraction of a word," originally "a cutting off, cutting up, cutting short," from synkoptein "to cut up," from syn- "together, thoroughly" (see syn-) + koptein "to cut," from PIE root *kop- "to beat, strike" (see hatchet (n.)). An earlier use of the word in pathology is represented by Middle English syncopis, sincopin "loss of consciousness accompanied by weak pulse" (c. 1400, from Late Latin accusative syncopen); compare Old French syncope "illness, fainting fit" ("failure of the heart's action," hence "unconsciousness"). The spelling of this was re-Latinized 16c. Related: Syncopic; syncoptic.
Example
- 1. What diagnostic testingdatahelp to risk stratify patients with syncope ?
- 2. Possibly enough to cause syncope .
- 3. Prosecutor : without liberty man is a syncope .
- 4. Such an attack is termed syncope .
- 5. Clinical analysis of arrhythmogenic cardiac syncope and adams - stokes syndrome .