| Patients usually have no symptoms, but if the pause is prolonged, they may have light-headedness, palpitations, syncope, and falls. |
| Cardiac syncope often causes immediate loss of consciousness, tonic stiffening of body and limbs, and often myoclonic jerking. |
| He was discharged the following afternoon with a presumptive diagnosis of vasovagal syncope, perhaps related to defecation. |
| In patients without focal neurologic symptoms and signs, syncope from cerebrovascular disease is extremely rare. |
| At the same time, syncope is common in words like fam'ly, fed'ral, happ'ning. |
| The traditional spellings of English place names such as Worcester and Gloucester bear evidence of syncope. |
