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Syncope vs Catatonia - What's the difference?

syncope | catatonia |

As a verb syncope

is .

As a noun catatonia is

a severe psychiatric condition, often associated with schizophrenia, characterized by a tendency to remain in a rigid state of stupor for long periods which give way to short periods of extreme agitation.

syncope

Noun

(en noun)
  • A loss of consciousness when someone faints, a swoon.
  • * 1973 Patrick O'Brian, HMS Surprise
  • the rapidly-whitening face, the miserable fixed smile, meant a syncope within the next few bars.
  • (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.
  • Synonyms

    * (swoon) faint, fainting

    Hypernyms

    * (prosody) metaplasm

    Derived terms

    * presyncope

    catatonia

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A severe psychiatric condition, often associated with schizophrenia, characterized by a tendency to remain in a rigid state of stupor for long periods which give way to short periods of extreme agitation
  • Derived terms

    * catatonic