Definition of Soporous

1. sleepy [adj] - See also: sleepy

Lexicographical Neighbors of Soporous

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

Literary usage of Soporous

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

1. A Manual of Homoeopathic Materia Medica by Joseph C. Fahnestock (1901)
"Weakly, scrofulous children, with brain symptoms, during dentition. soporous sleep, with starting and screaming. HELONIAS DIOICA. (Hê-lô'-nï-as Dï-oi'-ka. ..."

2. The British Journal of Homoeopathy edited by John James Drysdale, Robert Ellis Dudgeon, Richard Hughes, John Rutherfurd Russell (1876)
"About 11 pm fever came on again, she sometimes lay in a soporous state, and sometimes turned uneasily about, the thirst returned. ..."

3. Special Pathology and Diagnostics: With Therapeutic Hints by Charles Godlove Raue (1882)
"Breathing sometimes quick, sometimes slow and deep; sighing; boring back of the head; soporous sleep with screaming and starting: automatic motions of one ..."

4. Clinical observations on functional nervous disorders by Charles Handfield Jones (1867)
"The soporous symptoms came on at the onset of the paroxysm in the cold stage, at the time when arterial spasm is prevalent. They were removed and obviated ..."

5. Clinical observations on functional nervous disorders by Charles Handfield Jones (1868)
"The soporous symptoms came on at the onset of the paroxysm in the cold stage, at the time when arterial spasm is prevalent. They were removed and obviated ..."

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