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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Like a diagnostician, like Janet observing his female hysteric in her four-part attack of hiccoughs and belch, the poet persona focuses on the organs of the hysterical attack and on the structure of the alternations between exhalation and inhalation.
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
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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Any minor hiccoughs can be directly attributed to the providers of health services failing to supply supporting paper work on time.
In defence of ACC: personal circumstances have seen Ralph Penning put the Accident Compensation Corporation's services to the test. And he is very impressed
This maneuver allows linguists to exclude hiccoughs, for instance, from the corpus of English utterances; they are produced by the interaction of the language mechanism with the hiccough mechanism, and so attributing them to the former alone would make our linguistic theory go false.
Linguistics in law
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.
The freedom factor
Victor manages to persuade Anja to come to his class party with her girlfriend, Gitte, but when he asks her for a dance he's overcome with an attack of hiccoughs.
LOVE AT FIRST HICCOUGH
The autonomic innervation of the diaphragm is via the phrenic nerve, and intermittent and sporadic impulses from this nerve are known to cause hiccoughs, the result of twitching of the diaphragmatic muscle.
Diaphragmatic Cramp as a Possible Cause of Noncardiac Chest Pain and Referred Mandibular Pain
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