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Awaken


Definition:

  • () of Awake
  • (v. t.) To rouse from sleep or torpor; to awake; to wake.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) There is also young voter "Mike" in New York and "Alice," an African-American from Michigan, who underline the need to re-awaken Obama's most loyal supporters from 2008.
  • (2) A statistically significant difference (p less than 0.01) was found between salmeterol and the association for this criteria: during the first period, 46% of subjects treated by salmeterol did not present nocturnal awakenings during the last treatment week by comparison with 15% of subjects taking the association; during the second period, corresponding figures were 39% for salmeterol by comparison with 26% for the association.
  • (3) Photograph: Amelia Jacobsen A second successive nomination for Long, whose increasing public prominence has coincided with a political awakening that has seen her dive headlong into activism as part of groups like UK Uncut .
  • (4) Total sleep time (TST) and sleep efficiency (SE) significantly decreased, and wake during sleep (WDS), number of awakenings, and percentage of stage one significantly increased across the decades.
  • (5) Both doses of CM 6912 increased total sleep time, and reduced sleep latency and total awakening in a dose-dependent manner.
  • (6) Awakening produced desynchronization of electrical activity in all cortical layers of both hemispheres.
  • (7) Although phenacetin prolonged sleep there was no corresponding increase in urine volume on awakening.
  • (8) Analysis showed that 24% had delayed sleep onset, 23% awakened frequently, 19% awakened early, 21% were dissatisfied with sleep, and 8% took medication to aid sleep.
  • (9) This change has been made possible by: -techniques of anaesthesia using drugs which are eliminated rapidly without any rebound phenomenon, -medical attitudes, such as prior examination of the patient by an anesthetist; this is much better than a rapid examination at night or in the morning on admission of the patient, thus precise control of awakening by tests of psychomotor activity.
  • (10) In narcolepsy characteristic symptoms are sleep attacks, kataplexy (emotionally induced loss of muscle tone) and transient pareses during awakening.
  • (11) If only she could have foreseen the levels of excitement and anticipation surrounding Star Wars: The Force Awakens , the seventh instalment, in which she will return alongside co-stars from the original trilogy including Harrison Ford and Mark Hamill.
  • (12) There was, however, a statistically significant improvement of the objectively evaluated quality of awakening and early morning behavior characterized by an improved attention, reaction time and performance in the reaction time task, while concentration and psychomotor activity tended to improve as as well.
  • (13) Brexiters face rude awakening on immigration, says ex-minister Read more The problem is, there is nothing on the horizon to suggest that achieving any significant reduction in immigration is achievable or even desirable.
  • (14) The greater reduction was observed during the 3-hour interval immediately after awakening, a period with a risk of infarction twice that of any other comparable time interval (p less than 0.001).
  • (15) As for the inner experience of the subjects, they frequently reported dream and distinct mentations on awakening from REM sleep whether or not it was accompanied by Fm theta.
  • (16) The last hour of spontaneous awakenings from uninterrupted sleep of 16 young adults was analyzed.
  • (17) Patient awakening at the end of the infusion period was rapid and without sequelae.
  • (18) Now, after 30 years of direct funding by government grant, with little scrutiny, it is in the throes of the rudest of awakenings, from leaks about zero-rated programmes to critics who say it had too much money.
  • (19) Let’s leave that discussion to another day, but imagine a combination of the two – sort of Transformers meets Ex Machina – in which a race of giant sexy robots battles it out with another race of really mean giant sexy robots while paltry human beings look on in awe, and teenage boys (and girls) experience incredibly conflicting and disturbing sensual awakenings in the front row of the Beckenham Odeon.
  • (20) No temperature elevations were recorded in the posterior longitudinal ligament at the disc level and all animals recovered fully with no adverse sequelae, even immediately upon awakening from anesthesia.

Waken


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To wake; to cease to sleep; to be awakened.
  • (v. t.) To excite or rouse from sleep; to wake; to awake; to awaken.
  • (v. t.) To excite; to rouse; to move to action; to awaken.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Only a relatively low level of correlation between the degree of wakening and reduction in slow-wave sleep was noted in depressed patients.
  • (2) A good clinical response was thought to be predicted by the presence of psychomotor retardation, depressive delusions, depressed mood, early morning wakening, diurnal variation, loss of appetite, and agitation.
  • (3) The distribution of states and corresponding heart rate values were tabulated for each minute during 2-hr periods preceding and following wakenings with and without feedings.
  • (4) Experiments on wakening from "rapid" and "slow" sleep, as well as clinical and epidemiological studies revealed differences in the reports of dreams.
  • (5) Contrary to the generally accepted criterion for the organicity of pruritus, psychiatric and possibly sleep pathologic factors rather than primary dermatologic factors determined the wakenings from sleep as a result of pruritus.
  • (6) In this patient, night terrors seemed to be precipitated by nocturnal noises wakening him from deep sleep.
  • (7) As wakenings from REM sleep were 21(8) minutes later in the night than those from non-REM sleep multivariate analysis was performed to differentiate temporal effects from those related to the stage of sleep.
  • (8) Most patients with asthma waken with nocturnal asthma from time to time.
  • (9) For right-handers there was a significant right ear advantage (REA) only after REM wakenings, which was equal in magnitude to the REA obtained during waking.
  • (10) Patients with both a high daily caffeine intake and excessively delayed wakening at weekends (each defined as greater than the mean for the whole group) had a 69% risk of weekend headache.
  • (11) Transient awakenings increased significantly on the first drug night, and wakening latency decreased.
  • (12) Two broad types of insomnia may often be distinguished: (1) difficulty falling asleep and frequent wakening, characteristic of anxiety states or obsessive worrying; and (2) early morning wakening, sometimes in a panic, suggestive of endogenous depression.
  • (13) This may ensure high intensity of protein biosynthesis at increase in body temperature during wakening.
  • (14) Fifteen per cent of the sample presented significant sleep problems, particularly in the form of intermittent wakenings.
  • (15) They were asked for mentation reports as follows: after lying awake with external stimulation (W), after lying awake without external stimulation (WO), and after being wakened from REM sleep.
  • (16) My day starts at 6am when I am rudely wakened by screech my alarm clock.
  • (17) Eight normal male subjects received 1 mg dexamethasone at 23.00 h and 0.5 mg on wakening followed by a physiological intravenous dose of synthetic ACTH1-24 250 ng, with and without the administration of a stable met-enkephalin analogue (guanyl-DAMME, 100 micrograms) 10 minutes prior to the ACTH.
  • (18) These remained stable; patients needed only a short time to waken, and were quickly able to again cooperate with the doctor.
  • (19) However, after wakening during the night, patients exhibited a higher tendency to return to REMS than controls.
  • (20) Despite they did not receive liver transplantation, both patients wakened from coma, their liver function improved, and they recovered from terminal amatoxin poisoning.

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