(v. t.) To contract, as a word, by taking one or more letters or syllables from the middle; as, "Gloster" is a syncopated form of "Gloucester."
(v. t.) To commence, as a tone, on an unaccented part of a measure, and continue it into the following accented part, so that the accent is driven back upon the weak part and the rhythm drags.
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.
Word
Definition:
(n.) The spoken sign of a conception or an idea; an articulate or vocal sound, or a combination of articulate and vocal sounds, uttered by the human voice, and by custom expressing an idea or ideas; a single component part of human speech or language; a constituent part of a sentence; a term; a vocable.
(n.) Hence, the written or printed character, or combination of characters, expressing such a term; as, the words on a page.
(n.) Talk; discourse; speech; language.
(n.) Account; tidings; message; communication; information; -- used only in the singular.
(n.) Signal; order; command; direction.
(n.) Language considered as implying the faith or authority of the person who utters it; statement; affirmation; declaration; promise.
(n.) Verbal contention; dispute.
(n.) A brief remark or observation; an expression; a phrase, clause, or short sentence.
(v. i.) To use words, as in discussion; to argue; to dispute.
(v. t.) To express in words; to phrase.
(v. t.) To ply with words; also, to cause to be by the use of a word or words.
(v. t.) To flatter with words; to cajole.
Example Sentences:
(1) These 150 women, the word acknowledges, were killed for being women.
(2) He spoke words of power and depth and passion – and he spoke with a gesture, too.
(3) Looks like some kind of dissent, with Ameobi having words with Phil Dowd at the kick off after Liverpool's second goal.
(4) In the experiments to be reported here, computer-averaged EMG data were obtained from PCA of native speakers of American English, Japanese, and Danish who uttered test words embedded in frame sentences.
(5) This study examined the frequency of occurrence of velar deviations in spontaneous single-word utterances over a 6-month period for 40 children who ranged in age from 1:11 (years:months) to 3:1 at the first observation.
(6) In other words, the commitment to the euro is too deep to be forsaken.
(7) The government has blamed a clumsily worded press release for the furore, denying there would be random checks of the public.
(8) Tony Abbott has refused to concede that saying Aboriginal people who live in remote communities have made a “lifestyle choice” was a poor choice of words as the father of reconciliation issued a public plea to rebuild relations with Indigenous people.
(9) The force has given "words of advice" to eight people, all under 25, over messages posted online.
(10) Superior memory for the word list was found when the odor present during the relearning session was the same one that had been present at the time of initial learning, thereby demonstrating context-dependent memory.
(11) Both of these bills include restrictions on moving terrorists into our country.” The White House quickly confirmed the president would have to sign the legislation but denied this meant that its upcoming plan for closing Guantánamo was, in the words of one reporter, “dead on arrival”.
(12) There on the street is Young Jo whose last words were, "I am wery symbolic, sir."
(13) Sagan had a way of not wasting words, even playfully.
(14) His words earned a stinging rebuke from first lady Michelle Obama , but at a Friday rally in North Carolina he said of one accuser, Jessica Leeds: “Yeah, I’m gonna go after you.
(15) In this connection the question about the contribution of each word of length l (l-tuple) to the inhomogeneity of genetic text arises.
(16) But mention the words "eurozone crisis" to other Finns, and you could be rewarded with little more than a confused, albeit friendly, smile.
(17) But I know the full story and it’s a bit different from what people see.” The full story is heavy on the extremes of emotion and as the man who took a stricken but much-loved club away from its community, Winkelman knows that his part is that of villain; the war of words will rumble on.
(18) His words surprised some because of an impression that the US was unwilling to talk about these issues.
(19) The phrase “self-inflicted blow” was one he used repeatedly, along with the word “glib” – applied to his Vote Leave opponents.
(20) In the 1980s when she began, no newspaper would even print the words 'breast cancer'.