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
Part of the reason lies in the challenge, another in how deep dives change the chemistry in the brain, creating nitrogen narcosis or a “rapture of the deep” that freedivers describe in lyrical terms.
From Washington Post • Nov. 13, 2020
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
At temperatures below about 1 °C, they become unable to regulate magnesium in body fluids, leading to narcosis, clumsiness and paralysis of breathing.
From Nature • Dec. 12, 2012
The child lay in quiet narcosis, occasionally throwing itself about as if in pain.
From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Pyle, Walter L. (Walter Lytle)
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