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Absentia epileptica

Absentia epileptica (fr. absence - absence) – the sudden attack which is shown in the form of short-term loss (or oppressions) consciousnesses with the subsequent amnesia; one of epilepsy symptoms.

 
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Even if heart of the person does not fight, then he all the same can live during a long period, as the Norwegian fisherman Jan Revsdal showed us. Its "motor" stopped for 4 hours after the fisherman got lost and fell asleep in snow.