What's the difference between cannot and syncope?

Cannot


Definition:

  • () Am, is, or are, not able; -- written either as one word or two.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The generally accepted hypothesis is a coronary spasm but a direct cardiotoxicity of 5-FU cannot be.
  • (2) "The Samaras government has proved to be dangerous; it cannot continue handling the country's fate."
  • (3) Mike Ashley told Lee Charnley that maybe he could talk with me last week but I said: ‘Listen, we cannot say too much so I think it’s better if we wait.’ The message Mike Ashley is sending is quite positive, but it was better to talk after we play Tottenham.” Benítez will ask Ashley for written assurances over his transfer budget, control of transfers and other spheres of club autonomy, but can also reassure the owner that the prospect of managing in the second tier holds few fears for him.
  • (4) "At the same time, however, we cannot allow one man's untrue version of what happened to stand unchallenged," he said.
  • (5) The results suggest that RPE cannot be used reliably as a surrogate for direct pulse measurement in exercise training of persons with acute dysvascular amputations.
  • (6) This decrease cannot be accounted for by increased turnover of the mRNA in the presence of the drug.
  • (7) So too his statement that "in Zulu culture you cannot leave a woman if she is ready.
  • (8) The importance of proper disinfection of such equipment cannot be overemphasized.
  • (9) Thus, although ferric-enterochelin cannot penetrate the cell surface from outside, the complex that is formed within the envelope is transported normally into the cell.
  • (10) If Deckard cannot see himself in the other, Roy can.
  • (11) In this way they offer the doctor the chance of preventing genetic handicaps that cannot be obtained by natural reproduction, and that therefore should be used.
  • (12) Crown prince Sultan Bin Abdel Aziz said yesterday that the state had "spared no effort" to avoid such disasters but added that "it cannot stop what God has preordained.
  • (13) Unfortunately more than three quantitative data cannot be judged simultaneously without help of mathematical methods.
  • (14) This is not an argument for the status quo: teaching must be given greater priority within HE, but the flipside has to be an understanding on the part of students, ministers, officials, the public and the media that academics (just like politicians) cannot make everyone happy all of the time.
  • (15) Gradual evolutionary change by natural selection operates so slowly within established species that it cannot account for the major features of evolution.
  • (16) Particular attention has been paid to diabetes mellitus and chronic pancreatitis, but a firm conclusion cannot be drawn.
  • (17) Simple interconversion cannot account for the changes in binding that occur upon adding GMP-PNP or removing magnesium, since the increase in [R2]t exceeds the decrease in [R1]t. Moreover, the apparent amount of high-affinity complex exhibits a biphasic dependence on the concentration of [3H]histamine; an increase at low concentrations is offset by a decrease that occurs at higher concentrations.
  • (18) Today the physician who treats women with emotional problems during menopause cannot function solely as a psychotherapist; he must deal with both their soma and psyche.
  • (19) The release of possible peptide hormones into the interpeduncular cistern, where a pool of cerebrospinal fluid and large blood vessels occur, cannot be excluded.
  • (20) However, valid electroacoustic evaluation of the DMHAs cannot be accomplished using the conventional hearing aid test box.

Syncope


Definition:

  • (n.) An elision or retrenchment of one or more letters or syllables from the middle of a word; as, ne'er for never, ev'ry for every.
  • (n.) Same as Syncopation.
  • (n.) A fainting, or swooning. See Fainting.
  • (n.) A pause or cessation; suspension.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Other risk factors that have been identified in patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy include nonsustained ventricular tachycardia on ambulatory electrocardiogram, a strong family history of sudden death, and prior occurrence of syncope (or cardiac arrest).
  • (2) The decrease of left ventricle outflow gradient as well as of subjective complaints inclusively cerebral syncopes were remarkable.
  • (3) He was admitted with dyspnea on exertion, syncope, and severe cyanosis.
  • (4) Waiting for surgery the patient suffered a syncope that was diagnosed of embolic origin and the left atrial thrombus has disappeared.
  • (5) Of the 48 patients, 36 (75%) had symptoms--congestive heart failure in 24, angina in 19, and syncope in 7.
  • (6) A history of syncope associated with some event capable of stimulating the carotid sinus was also helpful in selecting patients for pacemaker treatment.
  • (7) The upright-tilting test was considered positive if syncope developed in association with hypotension or bradycardia, or both.
  • (8) It thus appears that paroxysmal, vagally mediated complete AV block should be seriously considered in patients with unexplained syncope.
  • (9) Orthostatic intolerance, with feeling sick, instability and sometimes syncope, is characteristically observed after the return to earth due to a remarkable fluid shift in the lower part of the body and an acute reduction in blood flow to the brain.
  • (10) The patient with recurrent malignant ventricular arrhythmias (ventricular fibrillation or ventricular tachycardia with syncope) presents a complex therapeutic problem.
  • (11) Syncope and sudden death occurs in certain purebred Pug dogs which have been found to have intermittent sinus pauses and paroxysmal second degree heart block on electrocardiographic (ECG) study.
  • (12) A diagnostic approach to syncope in head and neck cancer is proposed.
  • (13) Carotid sinus hypersensitivity (CSH) is a common cause of syncope, and permanent pacemarker is unequivocally indicated in such patients.
  • (14) The cause of brief syncopes is discovered in only two-thirds of the cases at most.
  • (15) TLS is an attractive clinical term, easy to remember, and with pathophysiologic relevance to the clinician confronting the patient with a history of syncope and whose EEG discloses temporal lobe paroxysmal activity.
  • (16) In another 38 patients with neither syncope nor an intraventricular conduction defect, the mean HV interval lengthened by 5.3 ms and in two cases by 20-25 ms.
  • (17) To determine if anodal excitation during bipolar stimulation facilitates the initiation of sustained monomorphic ventricular tachycardia, nonsustained polymorphic ventricular tachycardia, or repetitive ventricular responses, both bipolar and cathodal unipolar programmed ventricular stimulation with one to three extrastimuli delivered during ventricular pacing at two rates from the right ventricular apex were performed in 28 patients evaluated for spontaneous sustained ventricular tachycardia or ventricular fibrillation (11 patients), nonsustained tachycardia (eight patients), or syncope (nine patients).
  • (18) No correlation was established between HV interval and age, aortic valve gradient, left ventricular peak systolic pressure, syncope, and coronary artery disease.
  • (19) Pacing was required because of syncopal attacks in eight patients, three of whom had congestive heart failure or low cardiac output on physiologic studies.
  • (20) In this case, the metastatic tumor around the carotid sinus seemed to be related to the syncope and the hemodynamic collapse.