Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In pathology, fainting; syncope.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A fainting; a swoon.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun archaic A
fainting ; aswoon .
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Examples
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According to Motherby, in a state of lipothymy the patient perceives and understands but loses the power of speech.
Notes 2008
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For the distinction between syncope and lipothymy see also Motherby, A New Medical
Notes 2008
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Even though syncope and lipothymy are listed in most medical dictionaries, they are often dealt with by means of short and insufficient explanations.
Ildiko Csengei 2008
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Women, as well as children or old persons, were regarded as constituting the category of those who, owing to their weaker constitutions, were more prone to having fits of syncope and lipothymy — and, following from this, also more predisposed to becoming subject to violent emotions (fits of anger, fear and confused imagination).
Ildiko Csengei 2008
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Here, syncope (from the Greek "to cut" or "strike") and lipothymy (from the Greek "to leave" and "mind") are seen as manifestations of a weak constitution, and represent two degrees of a sudden decay or failure of the natural forces.
Ildiko Csengei 2008
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The condition could degenerate from lipothymy to syncope, and, according to one later eighteenth-century source, from syncope to the even more serious "asphixy."
Ildiko Csengei 2008
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In the medical terminology of the period, fainting, swooning, and various states that involve the loss of sensation or consciousness are referred to by the technical terms "syncope" and "lipothymy" (or lypothymia).
Ildiko Csengei 2008
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Syncope is a more serious condition than lipothymy.
Ildiko Csengei 2008
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As in the state of lipothymy described by contemporary medicine, she loses sensation and speech — exactly those faculties that would have helped her to escape.
Ildiko Csengei 2008
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While lipothymy looks like an overall paralysis of the body and the senses, syncope seems to mimic death: the Patient is deprived of all Manner and Strength, both of Body and Mind, and seems to be dead; for he
Ildiko Csengei 2008
ruzuzu commented on the word lipothymy
*swoons*
March 26, 2014
qms commented on the word lipothymy
In Reggy's self-flattering sophistry
He boasts of an odd idiopathy,
Of taste so exquisite
That should Bacchus visit
The good stuff induces lipothomy.
Today's Word of the Day brought to my attention how many words English supplies to denote a loss of consciousness. You can probably find a term to describe the result of too much liquor that is apt for every character type. See pass out, faint, syncope, swoon.
January 31, 2016