(a. & adv.) In a state of sleep; in sleep; dormant.
(a. & adv.) In the sleep of the grave; dead.
(a. & adv.) Numbed, and, usually, tingling.
Example Sentences:
(1) This was carried out on the healthy subjects for a total of 12 nights without medication (control nights asleep), a total of 12 nights following 40 mg of flucortolone the previous morning, and a total of 6 nights with similar blood sampling when sleep was prevented (control nights awake).
(2) "Weak" subjects tended to fall asleep more rapidly during monotonous stimulation, whereas the reverse was true of "strong" subjects.
(3) Prolonged, uninterrupted recording at reduced speed, taken both while the patient is awake and asleep, may well facilitate recognition of periodic events as unusual as those observed in the 20-year-old young man described in this paper, who was examined during the early stage of the disease.
(4) I was so tired I just used to fall asleep on my feet.
(5) Although the mean total time asleep on baseline nights was about the same between groups (greater than 7.1 hr), the depressives had a statistically significant reduction in REM time, increased transitions into stage 1, but most especially averaged: (a) less stage 4; and (b) more stage 1.
(6) At a nasopharyngeal temperature of 15 degrees C, blood flow was reduced to 25% of the awake level, corresponding to 34% of the asleep value obtained 15-30 min after intubation.
(7) Men considered work-related pressure and fatigue (20%) as the most important factor disturbing falling asleep or quality of sleep.
(8) In February last year the BBC was forced to apologise to the Mexican ambassador after a joke made by the three presenters that the nation's cars were like the people "lazy, feckless, flatulent, overweight, leaning against a fence asleep looking at a cactus with a blanket with a hole in the middle on as a coat".
(9) In legend, Gilgamesh fell asleep on the water side and let slip from his fingers the plant of eternal youth.
(10) Control of breathing in the waking state at rest, and when asleep, in HLT subject is not different from that of the healthy subject, which suggests that the pulmonary afferents play a negligible role in the control of breathing of adult humans at rest.
(11) "Ali's got a left, Ali 's got a right, if he hits you once, you're asleep for the night."
(12) There were some hormonal patterns characteristic of individual complaints; hot flush was associated with increased FSH and LH, and decreased E1 and E2; difficulty in falling asleep, excitability, and fatigability, with increased FSH and LH, and decreased E2; nervousness, with increased LH and decreased E2; headache, with increased LH and PRL, and decreased E2; feeling of cold, with decreased E2 and PRL; and numbness and shoulder stiffness, with decreased E2.
(13) The change in HR was not related to the duration of B, V, or M or to the mouth pressure generated during V and M. In order to determine if awake HR response to the maneuvers reflected HR response to obstructive apnea, we examined the relationship between the HR response to B, V, and M during wakefulness and the response to obstructive apnea of similar duration while asleep.
(14) "Salma was fast asleep next to me when the men came in, beat me and tied me and the children up," said her husband, Mohammad Karim Khan.
(15) I don’t want any more shots.’” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Patience Carter describes being held hostage during Orlando shooting 2.06am Mina Justice was asleep at home when she woken by a text message from her 30-year-old son, Eddie.
(16) He was flanked by a triumvirate of aides, the excitable and matronly chief usher, a man at a computer screen who looked like a bedraggled version of Prince William, and a shaven-headed man who did absolutely nothing all day except fall asleep midway through the morning session.
(17) As a gesture of goodwill, Moto has cancelled the charge, assuming you had fallen asleep.
(18) A bookish teenager regarded as the smartest of the Murdoch brood, James endured an awkward adolescence in the public eye and was famously photographed asleep on a sofa at a press conference while working as a 15-year-old intern at his father's old paper, the Sydney Mirror, a picture the rival Sydney Morning Herald gleefully ran on its front page the next day.
(19) Alcohol also disrupts your circadian rhythms , so although you may fall asleep quickly, you will wake up sooner than normal and feel somewhat jetlagged.
(20) In connection with the morning shift the circadian psychophysiology makes it difficult to fall asleep as early as needed during the preceding night.
Awake
Definition:
(v. t.) To rouse from sleep; to wake; to awaken.
(v. t.) To rouse from a state resembling sleep, as from death, stupidity., or inaction; to put into action; to give new life to; to stir up; as, to awake the dead; to awake the dormant faculties.
(v. i.) To cease to sleep; to come out of a state of natural sleep; and, figuratively, out of a state resembling sleep, as inaction or death.
(a.) Not sleeping or lethargic; roused from sleep; in a state of vigilance or action.
Example Sentences:
(1) To examine the central nervous system regulation of duodenal bicarbonate secretion, an animal model was developed that allowed cerebroventricular and intravenous injections as well as collection of duodenal perfusates in awake, freely moving rats.
(2) This was carried out on the healthy subjects for a total of 12 nights without medication (control nights asleep), a total of 12 nights following 40 mg of flucortolone the previous morning, and a total of 6 nights with similar blood sampling when sleep was prevented (control nights awake).
(3) In this study, at first, the states of sleep and wakefulness in newborn infants (measured simultaneously by EEG, EOG, respiration and body movement) were compared with their heart rate patterns in rest, active, awake and unclassified phases.
(4) You're more likely to awake refreshed, because inside your mattress there's a special sensor that monitors your sleeping rhythms, determining precisely when to wake you so as not to interrupt an REM cycle.
(5) After sulfentanil analgesia the patients were more rapidly awake and lucid, than after fentanyl-analgesia.
(6) Prolonged, uninterrupted recording at reduced speed, taken both while the patient is awake and asleep, may well facilitate recognition of periodic events as unusual as those observed in the 20-year-old young man described in this paper, who was examined during the early stage of the disease.
(7) The arrhythmic threshold dose for epinephrine and dopamine was significantly (p less than 0.05) reduced during halothane anesthesia when compared to values determined in awake animals.
(8) Two groups of five awake, unsedated, newborn lambs (2- to 6-d old) received, respectively, i.v.
(9) Rapid atrial pacing was performed in a stepwise fashion until the onset of angina pectoris in the awake patients.
(10) In any halfway-awake western nation, and, to be frank, in many reaches of British national life, this would be considered an amateurish absurdity, a guarantee of eventual failure.
(11) The activity patterns in self- and cross-reinnervated flexor digitorum longus (FDL) and soleus (SOL) muscles were examined during natural movements in awake, unrestrained cats in which electromyographic (EMG) electrodes, tendon-force gauges, and muscle-length gauges had been chronically implanted under anesthesia and aseptic conditions.
(12) In awake rats the latency of auditory startle recorded electromyographically in the neck is about 5 ms, suggesting that the primary component of this brainstem reflex is mediated by a neural circuit with only a few synapses.
(13) Studies were performed in 11 awake dogs; blood flow was measured with radioactive microspheres.
(14) At a nasopharyngeal temperature of 15 degrees C, blood flow was reduced to 25% of the awake level, corresponding to 34% of the asleep value obtained 15-30 min after intubation.
(15) The influence of vagal integrity on NPY, PYY, and PP basal and postprandial release was evaluated using a new technique of reversible cryogenic cervical vagal blockade in an awake canine model.
(16) The infant was allowed to sleep and awake according to his own schedule and was fed only if his behavior could be judged as a feeding demand.
(17) Heart rate and MBP decreased to similar degrees below awake levels in both patient groups during N2O with halothane or isoflurane.
(18) This syndrome of ECG changes in the absence of tachycardia and hypertension resembles the syndrome of silent ischaemia documented in awake patients.
(19) Eight men who were regular heavy snorers were monitored while awake and during nocturnal sleep.
(20) Midazolam produced satisfactory sedation and anxiolysis and in the early postoperative period patients were significantly more awake (p less than 0.05).