(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).
Awoke
Definition:
(imp.) of Awake
() of Awake
Example Sentences:
(1) In contrast, in those patients who awoke, average SaO2 increased more than 4% during a similar time period--a difference that was statistically significant (P less than 0.02).
(2) Patients who received flumazenil awoke within minutes but central depression returned partly one hour later, which reflects the short elimination half-life of the drug.
(3) Beginning in the middle of last year they awoke to the fact they had to do it.
(4) Recovery was assessed quantitatively by measuring time to when they awoke and by a comparison of pre- and postoperative performance of p-deletion and postbox tests.
(5) They all awoke from analgesia but, 32 hours after completion of the procedure, they went from alertness to respiratory arrest in less than 1 hour.
(6) The mayor of Toronto Rob Ford awoke on Friday morning to the most serious allegations against him yet, with reports of a crude video in circulation which purportedly show him smoking crack cocaine.
(7) … Millions of people went to bed in one country and awoke in different ones, overnight becoming ethnic minorities in former Union republics, while the Russian nation became one of the biggest, if not the biggest ethnic group in the world to be divided by borders.
(8) Forty-one victims were never unconscious, 30 victims were unconscious at the scene but awoke before arriving at the hospital, and 44 victims were unconscious in the ED.
(9) The patient awoke neurologically intact and was monitored in the Intensive Care Unit.
(10) Twelve patients showed waveform changes temporally related to circumstances that might endanger cord function; two of these awoke with transient neurological abnormality.
(11) All patients awoke pain-free, but eight of the fifteen patients receiving bupivacaine alone required supplementary injections of opioid postoperatively, whereas none of the patients receiving the bupivacaine-morphine mixture required additional opioids.
(12) His EEG during a sleepy episode was diffusely abnormal with generalized slowing of background activity; as he awoke and improved clinically, his EEG returned to normal.
(13) The patterns of recovery of patients who received seven different analgesic and sedative treatments were investigated with regard to the time at which the subjects awoke.
(14) A few months later I was fast asleep on the floor of a flat in Edinburgh when I awoke to find a completely naked Malcolm Hardee standing over me.
(15) But at the end of last week, Fillon awoke to news of the publication in Le Canard Enchaîné of highly damaging revelations that he had employed his wife Penelope, in what the newspaper implied was a well-paid parliamentary assistant role, funded with public money.
(16) They all awoke 60 to 120 min after administration of MDE and stayed awake for at least 150 min (total sleep time, TST MDE < placebo and intermittent time awake MDE > placebo: p < 0.001).
(17) By the time Austria awoke on Saturday the first refugees had arrived, bussed out of the country overnight by Hungarian authorities happy to be rid of them the minute the Austrian and German governments took the momentous decision to throw open their borders.
(18) Thirteen percent of the observers did not remain with the patient for 24 hours, 16% passed the responsibility of observation to another individual, and 71% awoke the patient as instructed.
(19) Those of us who want to eat safe, healthy food awoke to a nightmare on Tuesday, a chilling interview on Radio 4’s Today programme .
(20) A 45-year-old man awoke with numbness and paresthesias on the right side of his face, scalp, ear, and tongue.