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- noun Plural form of
syncope .
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Examples
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A tout moment, des corps convulsés ou immobilisés par les syncopes sont emportés par des ambulances.
Global Voices in English » Rwanda: Fifteen years after the genocide 2009
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The gorgeous harmonies and experimental spirit, the odd syncopes, sounds and words stimulate my ear and brain in ways no other music does.
Living With Music: Aleksandar Hemon - Paper Cuts Blog - NYTimes.com 2009
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The gorgeous harmonies and experimental spirit, the odd syncopes, sounds and words stimulate my ear and brain in ways no other music does.
Living With Music: Aleksandar Hemon - Paper Cuts Blog - NYTimes.com 2009
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Should anyone, for instance, performing phlebotomy, suffer the blood to flow in the manner it usually does, with force and freely, for some half hour or so, no question but that the greatest part of the blood being abstracted, faintings and syncopes would ensue, and that not only would the arteries but the great veins also be nearly emptied of their contents.
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Indeed the instrumentation is simply perfect, the choruses are master-pieces of originality, life and melody, and the rythm with its syncopes, is so remarkable, that one is more than justified in calling the style unique; it is Berlioz and no other.
The Standard Operaglass Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fifty-one Celebrated Operas Charles Annesley
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Should anyone, for instance, performing phlebotomy, suffer the blood to flow in the manner it usually does, with force and freely, for some half hour or so, no question but that the greatest part of the blood being abstracted, faintings and syncopes would ensue, and that not only would the arteries but the great veins also be nearly emptied of their contents.
The Harvard Classics Volume 38 Scientific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology) Various
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Should anyone, for instance, performing phlebotomy, suffer the blood to flow in the manner it usually does, with force and freely, for some half hour or so, no question but that the greatest part of the blood being abstracted, faintings and syncopes would ensue, and that not only would the arteries but the great veins also be nearly emptied of their contents.
XII. That There Is a Circulation of the Blood Is Shown from the Second Position Demonstrated 1909
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Her health has been good since her last operation, the syncopes are easy, and the communications obtained in this state have acquired a degree of coherence and plausibility which was previously wanting.
Mrs. Piper & the Society for Psychical Research Michael Sage 1897
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Whytt mentions a woman of delicate constitution and great sensibility of the digestive tract in whom foods difficult of digestion provoked spasms, which were often followed by syncopes.
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Whytt mentions a woman of delicate constitution and great sensibility of the digestive tract in whom foods difficult of digestion provoked spasms, which were often followed by syncopes.
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