Hiccup

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Hiccup

1. A brief decline in a price during a general uptrend.

2. A brief rise in a price during a general downtrend.

In both cases, any number of factors may cause a hiccup, but the trend soon resumes.

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These symptoms or compromise formations also shade into signs, even literary signs, in the example of the patient Janet then recalls, whose "three or four hiccoughs" were always followed by a belch:

Symptom and sign: Janet, Freud, Eliot, and the literary mandate of laughter

baclofen 5 mg tds or midazolam 2-10 mg IV if the hiccoughs are severe

Symptom control in cancer management

The 21-year-old reported 6 general symptoms within 4 weeks after exposure, including fatigue, abdominal pain, nausea/vomiting, hiccoughs, chest pain, and difficulty breathing, but he did not fulfill the definition of a suspected case because he did not exhibit fever or bleeding.

Serosurvey on household contacts of Marburg hemorrhagic fever patients

About those widely reported hiccoughs for the Solstice, the problems with the front fascia, the top, etc.

Pontiac's bright light creating the Solstice: the executives at General Motors have been talking about building "gotta have" products for the past few years. The Pontiac Solstice is among the few that actually deserves that appellation

I RECENTLY had a particularly prolonged attack of hiccoughs, after a couple of hours I began to wonder if it could be dangerous.

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apart, its holes stuffed with hiccoughs." (54) I have italicized

Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged: from romantic fallacy to holocaustic imagination

EU sources say there now appear to be "hiccoughs" in the process of finalising a Constitutional Charter envisaging a new form of loose union between the republics of Serbia and Montenegro, despite the recent political agreement on the question.

GENERAL AFFAIRS & EXTERNAL RELATIONS COUNCIL: ENLARGEMENT SET TO DOMINATE FOREIGN AFFAIRS BUSINESS

On the other, it has also been a period in which regional repertory theatre has all but disappeared: in which audiences have been eroded by the popularity of cinema and television: in which financial hiccoughs have been allowed to turn into full-blown financial crises, causing theatres to go dark for a season or, in some cases, close entirely: and in which various people have, at one time or another, declared the industry dead.

Fifty years of British theatre

Delwaide interrupted her swivels and slides with violent torso hiccoughs, moving from Cunningham-style tension to rag-doll release.

DELWAIDE WITH BORROWED BODIES

Table 1 Factors Reported to Prevent Sleep In Hemodialysis Subjects Number of Percentage of Subjects Subjects Factor Reporting * Reporting * Weather 22 39% Symptoms/Signs: Pain/discomfort 11 19% Restless legs 8 14% Needing to void 7 12% Worry 6 11% Abdominal discomfort/gas 4 7% Breathing difficulties 3 5% Overtired 3 5% Dreams 3 5% Pruritus 2 4% Hunger 2 4% Miscellaneous discomforts (1 each: thirst 7 12% hiccoughs, cold, angina, pounding heart, high blood pressure, fever) Sleep Hygiene 7 12% Dialysis Related 3 5% Miscellaneous 2 4% * Subjects reported more than one factor.

Sleep pattern disturbance in hemodialysis and peritoneal dialysis patients

Prior to this technology, business travellers could only look forward to long downloads and e-mail hiccoughs upon arrival at their hotel.