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Definition of Somnolence
1. Noun. A very sleepy state. "Sleepiness causes many driving accidents"
Generic synonyms: Temporary State
Specialized synonyms: Oscitance, Oscitancy
Derivative terms: Drowsy, Sleepy, Somnolent
Antonyms: Wakefulness
Definition of Somnolence
1. n. Sleepiness; drowsiness; inclination to sleep.
Definition of Somnolence
1. Noun. a state of drowsiness or sleepiness ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Somnolence
1. [n -S]
Medical Definition of Somnolence
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Somnolence
Literary usage of Somnolence
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Sleep and Its Derangements by William Alexander Hammond (1869)
"somnolence or drowsiness is generally regarded, when persistent, as being more
strongly ... somnolence is nothing more than an inordinate tendency to sleep. ..."
2. Sleep and Its Derangements by William Alexander Hammond (1873)
"somnolence or drowsiness is generally regarded, when persistent, as being more
strongly ... somnolence is nothing more than an inordinate tendency to sleep. ..."
3. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1908)
"OUR present state of knowledge, or lack of it, concerning morbid somnolence,
justifies, I believe, this somewhat more than cursory comment of a case seen ..."
4. The Practitioner by Gale Group, ProQuest Information and Learning Company (1889)
"It is rare however in this country to meet with cases in which an excessive
somnolence of obscure origin, and extending over a prolonged period, ..."
5. Monographic Medicine by William Robie Patten Emerson, Guido Guerrini, William Brown, Wendell Christopher Phillips, John Whitridge Williams, John Appleton Swett, Hans Günther, Mario Mariotti, Hugh Grant Rowell (1916)
"Sopor, so common in the acute infectious processes (eg, typhoid, pneumonia),
often goes over, later, into coma. (f) somnolence, Twilight States (Mental Fog) ..."
6. The History, diagnosis, and treatment of the fevers of the United States by Elisha Bartlett (1856)
"V.—somnolence [and Coma]. In most cases, preceding the delirium, and often alternating
... Dr. Flint remarks that the pseudo-somnolence called coma-vigil, ..."
7. Epidemic Encephalitis (encephalitis Lethargica) by Frederick Tilney, Hubert Shattuck Howe (1920)
"This condition of prolonged somnolence associated / with a lower motor neuron
type of paralysis affecting I the leg, created much discussion, ..."
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