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S: NIH – https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12388955/ (last access: 24 June 2023); HIN – https://www.hindawi.com/journals/isrn/2012/705325/ (last access: 24 June 2023).
N: 1. From prefix “lipo-” (word-forming element meaning “fat” (n.), from Greek lipos “fat” (n.), from PIE root*leip- “to stick, adhere,” also used to form words for “fat”) and “thymia” (-Θυμ- {root of Θυμός /thymós/ “soul, spirit; mind”} + -ία {-ía} noun ending).
– (pathology, obsolete) A swoon due to transient cerebral hypoperfusion.
2. a condition or feeling of faintness.
3. A sensation of impending loss of consciousness. Syn: faintness.
4. Lipothymia as a noun (pathology): A swoon due to transient cerebral hypoperfusion.
Syncope as a noun (pathology): A loss of consciousness when someone faints, a swoon.
Syncope as a noun (prosody, phonology): The loss or elision of a sound from the interior of a word, for example by changing to , to , or the pronunciation of the ending in placenames as (for example, Leicester).
Syncope as a noun (music): A missed beat or off-beat stress in music resulting in syncopation.
S: 1. Wiktionary – https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/lipo-#English, https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/lipothymia (last access: 24 June 2023); OED – https://www.etymonline.com/search?q=lipo- (last access: 24 June 2023); http://www.simonofgenoa.org/index.php?title=Lippotomia#:~:text=The%20Greek%20term%20is%20%CE%BB%CE%B9%CF%80%CE%BF%CE%B8%CF%85%CE%BC%CE%AF%CE%B1,in%20anat(h)omia. (last access: 24 June 2023). 2. MW – https://www.merriam-webster.com/medical/lipothymia (last access: 24 June 2023). 3. TERMIUM PLUS – https://www.btb.termiumplus.gc.ca/tpv2alpha/alpha-eng.html?lang=eng&i=1&srchtxt=LIPOTHYMIA&codom2nd_wet=1#resultrecs (last access: 24 June 2023). 4. Diffsense – https://diffsense.com/diff/lipothymia/syncope (last access: 24 June 2023).
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