loss of consciousness
Temporary mental absence
Loss of consciousness is a state in which a person becomes unaware of their surroundings and unresponsive to stimulation.
It ranges from brief fainting spells to deep coma.
Causes include head trauma, blood loss, seizures, drug overdose, or insufficient oxygen to the brain.
The patient experienced a sudden loss of consciousness and collapsed.
- faintingTemporary loss of consciousness
- stuporSuspended sensibility
- out coldFully unconscious
- head injuryHarm to the skull
- syncopeTemporary loss of consciousness
choking · coma · lights out · defibrillation · blackout · concussion · drug overdose · hypoxia · oxygen deprivation · seizure · passing out · blacking out · drowning · cardiac arrest · catatonia · knockout · delirium · electrocution
- blackoutspower outage, power failure, power cut, outage, total blackout
- hypoglycemiablood sugar crash, sugar crash, glucose, insulin shock, hypoglycemic
- neurological symptomsnumbness, tremor, paralysis, aphasia, ataxia
- Brain InjuriesTBI, concussion, brain trauma, brain damage, traumatic brain injury
- seizure symptomsseizure, seizures, convulsion, convulsions, shaking
- oxygen deprivationhypoxia, hypoxemia, cyanosis, blue lips, blue skin
loss of consciousnessconsciousness
State of sentient awareness
awareness · wakefulness · alertness · lucidity · sentience
loss of consciousnesshyperawareness
Excessive attentional focus
hypervigilance · wide awake · sharp focus · vigilance · attentiveness
loses, losing, losers, conscious, consciousness, consciously, unconscious, unconsciously, unconsciousness