Lexicographical Neighbors of Obtundity
Literary usage of Obtundity
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Alcohol, the Sanction for Its Use: Scientifically Established and Populary by J. Starke (1907)
"The amount of fusel oil in the whiskey is greatly responsible for the degree of
obtundity. We must not forget that a good liqueur after dinner and a good ..."
2. The Geometry of the Circle and Mathematics as Applied to Geometry by by James Smith (1869)
"... "coach" It appears to me that the profundity of his reflection is on a par
with the obtundity of his intellect*—as to the appreciation of a joke, ..."
3. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by Philadelphia Neurological Society, American Neurological Association, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association (1906)
"... fingers on both hands, and especially the right index, was somewhat defective.
Although very slight this obtundity seemed greater in the thumbs and the ..."
4. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by American Neurological Association, Philadelphia Neurological Society, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association, Boston Society of Psychiatry and Neurology (1906)
"... fingers on both hands, and especially the right index, was somewhat defective.
Although very slight this obtundity seemed greater in the thumbs and the ..."
5. The Laryngoscope by American Laryngological, Rhinological, and Otological Society (1902)
"There was some obtundity of olfaction, but no interference with the sense of taste.
Previous history was entirely negative as she had never been sick but ..."
6. The Diseases of Society: (the Vice and Crime Problem) by George Frank Lydston (1904)
"Where relative obtundity of general and special sensibility is not, so to speak,
an occupation neurosis in criminals and other degenerates, ..."
7. Causes and Cures of Crime by Thomas Speed Mosby (1913)
"... inferior intelligence, improvidence, malingering, tattooing, impatience,
obtundity of the moral sense, the use of slang, vengeance, defective senses, ..."
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