narcosis
Americannoun
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a state of stupor or drowsiness.
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a state of stupor or greatly reduced activity produced by a drug.
noun
Etymology
Origin of narcosis
Example Sentences
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“The freeway experience ... is the only secular communion Los Angeles has.… Actual participation requires total surrender, a concentration so intense as to seem a kind of narcosis, a rapture-of-the-freeway.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 11, 2023
From 40 metres to 60 metres you get nitrogen narcosis and from 80 metres and deeper you get oxygen poisoning.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 9, 2019
Using a helium-oxygen mixture avoids the disoriented mental state known as nitrogen narcosis, the so-called rapture of the deep.
From Textbooks ● Feb. 14, 2019
Methylene chloride can kill either through direct narcosis or through metabolization into carbon monoxide, which binds to hemoglobin in the blood and inhibits oxygen from moving around the body.
From Washington Post ● May 10, 2018
But at last, the narcosis of cellular exhaustion completely overcame him and he slept.
From Deepfreeze by Locke, Robert Donald
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