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Definition of Loss of consciousness
1. Noun. The occurrence of a loss of the ability to perceive and respond.
Specialized synonyms: Deliquium, Faint, Swoon, Syncope
Medical Definition of Loss of consciousness
1. Total unresponsiveness. An important neurologic sign. (27 Sep 1997)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Loss Of Consciousness
Literary usage of Loss of consciousness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1881)
"Paru/ysis with partial or complete loss of consciousness seems ю have been one
of the most frequent modes of onset of priman" ventricular hemorrhage, ..."
2. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by American Neurological Association, Philadelphia Neurological Society, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association, Boston Society of Psychiatry and Neurology (1913)
"Professor Mac- Millan was certain that all of them showed a loss of consciousness;
he thought they were all in a confused state. Thus they were perfectly ..."
3. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by Philadelphia Neurological Society, American Neurological Association, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association (1899)
"... preceded by paresthesia, unaccompanied by loss of consciousness. The paroxysms
last from ten to twenty-five seconds, during which time the left arm, ..."
4. Psychology; Or, The Science of Mind by Oliver S. Munsell (1880)
"ITS MENTAL TI . loss of Consciousness. — loss of consciousness is the first, as
it is the immediate, mental resultant of perfect sleep, and seems to depend, ..."
5. A Dictionary of Medicine: Including General Pathology, General Therapeutics by Richard Quain, Frederick Thomas Roberts, John Mitchell Bruce, Samuel Treat Armstrong (1894)
"Here we must include, also, a peculiar group of conditions, having some alliance
with one another, and which are all characterised by loss of consciousness ..."
6. A Treatise on the diseases of the nervous system by William Alexander Hammond (1891)
"It does not matter for the definition whether there be loss of consciousness or
not ; loss of consciousness is a fundamental thing in most of the accepted ..."
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