Definition of Soporose

1. a. Causing sleep; sleepy.

Definition of Soporose

1. sleepy [adj] - See also: sleepy

Medical Definition of Soporose

1. Soporous Relating to or causing an unnaturally deep sleep. Origin: L. Sopor, deep sleep (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Soporose

sophta
sophtas
sophy
sopite
sopited
sopites
sopiting
sopition
sopor
soporiferous
soporific
soporifical
soporifically
soporifick
soporifics
soporose (current term)
soporous
sopors
sopped
sopper
soppers
soppier
soppiest
soppily
soppiness
soppinesses
sopping
soppings
soppressata
soppy

Literary usage of Soporose

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Surgery, Gynecology & Obstetrics by The American College of Surgeons, Franklin H. Martin Memorial Foundation (1910)
"than before the operation, slept only the normal number of hours, although previous to operation he slept or was soporose most of the twenty-four hours. ..."

2. A Systematic Treatise, Historical, Etiological, and Practical, on the by Daniel Drake (1854)
"All soporose intermittents may be re- girded as of an apoplectic character, and should be treated accordingly. The remedies are of coarse substantially the ..."

3. The Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica: A Record of the Positive Effects of by Timothy Field Allen (1875)
"soporose, stupid condition, from which the child could not be wakened, ... They lay in a soporose condition, with violent convulsions of the extremities ..."

4. Outlines of the History of Medicine and the Medical Profession by Henry Ebenezer Handerson, Johann Hermann Baas (1889)
"suspended and nothing is administered. Towards evening voiceless, soporose, closed eyes, ... August 24: soporose condition persists, respiration still (! ..."

5. The Diseases of Children: A Work for the Practising Physician by Meinhard von Pfaundler, Arthur Schlossmann, Henry Larned Keith Shaw, Linnæus Edford La Fétra, Luther Emmett Holt (1912)
"The "soporose" form is distinguished by a great desire to sleep which eventually ... The types occur in frequency in the following order: The "soporose," ..."

6. The Retrospect of Practical Medicine and Surgery: Being a Half-yearly edited by William Braithwaite, James Braithwaite, Edmond Fauriel Trevelyan (1863)
"He was brought into the house about 5 o'clock pm, surly, and rather soporose, with a weak pulse. It was stated that his wound» were the result of an attempt ..."

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