Coma vs Syncope - What's the difference?
coma | syncope |
A state of sleep from which one may not wake up, usually induced by some form of trauma.
(astronomy) A cloud of dust surrounding the nucleus of a comet.
(optics) A defect characterized by diffuse, pear-shaped images that should be points.
(botany) A tuft or bunch, such as the assemblage of branches forming the head of a tree, a cluster of bracts when empty and terminating the inflorescence of a plant, or a tuft of long hairs on certain seeds.
A loss of consciousness when someone faints, a swoon.
* 1973 Patrick O'Brian, HMS Surprise
(prosody, phonology) The absence of a sound from the interior of a word, for example by changing cannot to can't or the pronunciation of placenames in -cester (e.g. Leicester) as -ster.
A missed beat or off-beat stress in music resulting in syncopation.
As a noun coma
is a state of sleep from which one may not wake up, usually induced by some form of trauma or coma can be (astronomy) a cloud of dust surrounding the nucleus of a comet.As a verb syncope is
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(wikipedia coma)Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)See also
* persistent vegetative state * brain deathEtymology 2
From (etyl) .Noun
(comae)Anagrams
* ----syncope
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(wikipedia syncope)Noun
(en noun)- the rapidly-whitening face, the miserable fixed smile, meant a syncope within the next few bars.