(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.
Dormant
Definition:
(a.) Sleeping; as, a dormant animal; hence, not in action or exercise; quiescent; at rest; in abeyance; not disclosed, asserted, or insisted on; as, dormant passions; dormant claims or titles.
(a.) In a sleeping posture; as, a lion dormant; -- distinguished from couchant.
(a.) A large beam in the roof of a house upon which portions of the other timbers rest or " sleep."
Example Sentences:
(1) After absorption of labeled glucose, two pools of trehalose are found in dormant spores, one of which is extractable without breaking the spores, and the other, only after the spores are disintegrated.
(2) The fungicidal activity of six rabbit neutrophil cationic peptides (NP) against resting (dormant) spores, preincubated (swollen) spores, and hyphae of Aspergillus fumigatus and Rhizopus oryzae was examined.
(3) "Dormant" gene hypothesis and related data are reviewed in this connection.
(4) UDP-galactose 4-epimerase is present in the dormant seed.
(5) We conclude that amino acid infusion can increase GFR, possibly by utilization of 'dormant cortical nephrons' together with a rise in net ultrafiltration pressure of other filtrating glomeruli, both due to afferent vasodilatation.
(6) Activation of the dormant embryos of Artemia salina was marked by a rapid increase in 32P uptake which reached a stationary phase after 6 h of activation.
(7) Haploid and diploid strains were exposed, either as dormant conidia or during mitosis, and analysed for induced aneuploidy and effects on genetic segregation.
(8) The disaggregation of polysomes is an indication that the initiation step in protein synthesis is disrupted and is further evidence that the mechanism involved in protein synthesis arrest in dormant Artemia involves translational control.
(9) The prime minister will announce that £400m from dormant bank accounts will be used to help finance the scheme, dubbed Big Society Capital.
(10) Radioactivity is incorporated into all fractions of the dormant spores and into CO(2) without a noticeable lag, indicating that most, if not all, of the enzymes for glucose utilization are present.
(11) Dormant neuroblasts are found adjacent to the neuropil in late embryos and early first instar larvae.
(12) This procedure makes it possible to fix adequately dormant spores and thus compare the ultrastructure and histochemistry of dormant spores with those of germinated spores.
(13) Low temperature incubation after heat shock or the presence of an autoinhibitor will return activated spores to the dormant state.
(14) If it gets no response - perhaps because the letters are going to an old address - it will stop sending letters and statements and class the account as dormant.
(15) NADH oxidase and cytochrome c oxidase were present in dormant spores, germinated spores, and vegetative cells at all stages after germination, but succinate cytochrome c reductase was not present in dormant spores.
(16) Cryoscopic analysis of frozen sections provided indirect evidence for the presence of a waterproof layer limiting evaporation from living epithelial cells in dormant land snails.
(17) The 32P-labelled concatameric insert cut out from a plasmid pSPAv6.2(+), containing 6.2 copies of a full-length PSTV, was used to detect PSTV in dormant potato tubers by dot-blot hybridisation assay.
(18) Western blotting of dormant spore and vegetative cell fractions separated by SDS-PAGE demonstrated that GSLE is spore-specific and that greater than 90% of the GSLE is associated with the dormant spore cortex peptidoglycan as a phosphorylated 63kD pro-form, which could only be visualized after lysozyme digestion of the peptidoglycan.
(19) More importantly, we tested and verified the hypothesis that there is a relationship between concentrations of dormant, viable endospores of T. vulgaris in lake sediments and the extent of agriculture in the catchments of the lakes.
(20) Concentrations of cytochromes a, a(3), b, and c(+c(1)) increased during germination, outgrowth, and vegetative growth, but that of cytochrome o was highest in dormant spores.