2. Adjective. (medicine) Describing someone who is far from alert or oriented to time and space, and exhibits other signs being confused, a state just short of frank delirium. ¹
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Definition of Obtunded
1. obtund [v] - See also: obtund
Medical Definition of Obtunded
1. Mentally dulled. Head trauma may obtund a person. (12 Dec 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Obtunded
Literary usage of Obtunded
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1894)
"regard hypnosis as a state analogous to that of the "brown study " in which active
conciousness is obtunded or asleep. It is, however, an intensified and ..."
2. American Journal of Dental Science by American Society of Dental Surgeons (1891)
"I find that two thickness of common note paper is about the depth that the dentine
is obtunded. Dr. Fillebrown.—I should say that if it was obtunded half ..."
3. Journal of the British Dental Association by British Dental Association (1899)
"... of the milk of magnesia for some weeks, but he certainly should not expect it
to be obtunded as dentine was obtunded by the use of nitrate of silver. ..."
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