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Definition of Fainting

1. n. Syncope, or loss of consciousness owing to a sudden arrest of the blood supply to the brain, the face becoming pallid, the respiration feeble, and the heat's beat weak.

Definition of Fainting

1. Noun. An act of collapsing to a state to temporary unconsciousness. ¹

2. Verb. (present participle of faint) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Fainting

1. faint [v] - See also: faint

Medical Definition of Fainting

1. A form of syncope (fainting) that occurs as a part of a normal physiologic response to stress (often emotional stress). The individual becomes lightheaded, nauseated, flushed, feels warm and then may lose consciousness for several seconds. (27 Sep 1997)

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Literary usage of Fainting

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The History of Our Lord as Exemplified in Works of Art: With that of His by Jameson (Anna), Elizabeth Rigby Eastlake (1872)
"THE VIRGIN fainting at the foot of the Cross, supported by St. John and the ... The fainting of the Virgin was considered in some sort as her martyrdom; ..."

2. The History of Our Lord as Exemplified in Works of Art: With that of His by Jameson (Anna), Elizabeth Rigby Eastlake (1872)
"THE VIRGIN fainting at the foot of the Cross, supported by St. John and the Maries, belongs generally to a crowded composition, with the thieves, ..."

3. Elements of Physics; Or, Natural Philosophy, General and Medical: Comoprised by Neil Arnott (1856)
"fainting from diminished arterial tension. fainting, which is a temporary cessation of the action of the heart, and hence, as explained above, of the action ..."

4. Prevention of Disease and Care of the Sick: How to Keep Well and what to Do by William Gordon Stimpson, Milton Hugh Foster (1919)
"fainting is a temporary loss of consciousness due to insufficient supply of blood ... The tendency toward fainting does not always depend upon the physical ..."

5. The Gentleman's Magazine (1879)
"For the first and only time in her life, hysterical emotion overcame Virginia, and with a sharp cry she sank back fainting in her father's arms. ..."

6. A Treatise on the Diseases of Children: With Directions for the Management by Michael Underwood, Marshall Hall (1835)
"He reports that an infant, born at the full time, lay moaning and languid for four or five hours, and was then sci/ed with a fainting fit, ..."

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