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Syncope vs Vasovagal - What's the difference?

syncope | vasovagal |

As a noun syncope

is a loss of consciousness when someone faints, a swoon.

As an adjective vasovagal is

pertaining to the vagus nerve as well as the vascular system; often describing an attack etc. characterised by slowing of the pulse and a fall in blood pressure.

syncope

English

(wikipedia 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

    Related terms

    * syncopal, syncopic

    External links

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    vasovagal

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Pertaining to the vagus nerve as well as the vascular system; often describing an attack etc. characterised by slowing of the pulse and a fall in blood pressure.