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Definition of Hypnic
1. pertaining to sleep [adj]
Medical Definition of Hypnic
1. Relating to or causing sleep. Origin: G. Hypnikos, relating to sleep (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hypnic
Literary usage of Hypnic
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Medical lexicon by Robley Dunglison (1860)
"... that they were able, during their ' magnetic sleep,' to diagnosticate disease
and its appropriate treatment hypnic, ..."
2. The Chemical News (1860)
"We might tell how the author talks of " the goodness of С coming to the relief
of II—hypnic coming to the relief of Pungent," (p. ..."
3. Medical Lexicon: A Dictionary of Medical Science ... with French and Other by Robley Dunglison (1860)
"... persons who have affirmed that they were able, during their 'magnetic sleep,'
to diagnosticate disease and its appropriate treatment. hypnic, Hyp'meut ..."
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