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  2. Female hysteria - Wikipedia

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    Female hysteria was once a common medical diagnosis for women. It was described as exhibiting a wide array of symptoms, including anxiety, shortness of breath, fainting, nervousness, exaggerated and impulsive sexual desire, insomnia, fluid retention, heaviness in the abdomen, irritability, loss of appetite for food or sex, sexually impulsive behavior, and a "tendency to cause trouble for ...

  3. Syncope (medicine) - Wikipedia

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    Fainting in women was a commonplace trope or stereotype in Victorian England and in contemporary and modern depictions of the period. Syncope and presyncope are common in young athletes. In 1990 the American college basketball player Hank Gathers suddenly collapsed and died during a televised intercollegiate basketball game. [ 47 ]

  4. Heat syncope - Wikipedia

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    Heat syncope is fainting or dizziness as a result of overheating (syncope is the medical term for fainting). It is a type of heat illness. The basic symptom of heat syncope is fainting, with or without mental confusion. [1] Heat syncope is caused by peripheral vessel dilation, resulting in diminished blood flow to the brain and dehydration.

  5. Smelling salts - Wikipedia

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    They were widely used in Victorian Britain to revive fainting women, and in some areas, constables would carry a container of them for that purpose. [10] At that time, smelling salts were commonly dissolved with perfume in vinegar or alcohol and soaked onto a sponge, which was then carried on the person in a decorative container called a ...

  6. Postorgasmic illness syndrome - Wikipedia

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    The symptoms usually begin within 30 minutes of ejaculation, [5] and can last for several days, sometimes up to a week. [4] In some cases, symptoms may be delayed by 2 to 3 days or may last up to 2 weeks. [9] In some men, the onset of POIS is in puberty, while in others, the onset is later in life. [10]

  7. Woman with POTS shares experience fainting on the StairMaster

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    A woman with postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome has shared the scary moment she fainted mid-workout on the StairMaster.. Karina Drury, who has more than 1.4m followers on TikTok, has become ...

  8. Goats with Handsome Hairdos are Giving Everyone Serious Boy ...

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    Along their bodies, their coats can be long and lustrous. Many male Fainting Silky Goats have a never-ending awkward phase with their bangs – hence why so many of them look like Leonardo ...

  9. Intravaginal ejaculation latency time - Wikipedia

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    A 2008 survey of Canadian and American sex therapists stated that the average time for heterosexual intercourse (coitus) was 7 minutes and that 1 to 2 minutes was too short, 3 to 7 minutes was adequate and 7 to 13 minutes desirable, while 13 to 30 minutes was too long. [6] [7]