syncope

Nearly 40 percent of people experience syncope, or fainting spells, at least once in their lives.

Interestingly, another meaning for syncope is to contract a word by omitting middle sounds or letters.

There are four types of common heat illnesses that Lawrence says can range from minor to life-threatening, including heat syncope, heat cramps, heat exhaustion and heat stroke.

It is when children hold their breath when upset until they experience syncope, or passing out.

The light that long ago had struck me into syncope, recalled in this vision, seemed glidingly to mount the wall, and tremblingly to pause in the centre of the obscured ceiling.