What's the difference between asleep and slumberland?

Asleep


Definition:

  • (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.

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