(a.) Possessing the faculty of knowing one's own thoughts or mental operations.
(a.) Possessing knowledge, whether by internal, conscious experience or by external observation; cognizant; aware; sensible.
(a.) Made the object of consciousness; known to one's self; as, conscious guilt.
Example Sentences:
(1) All rats were examined in the conscious, unrestrained state 12 wk after induction of diabetes or acidified saline (pH 4.5) injection.
(2) We have investigated a physiological role of endogenous insulin on exocrine pancreatic secretion stimulated by a liquid meal as well as exogenous secretin and cholecystokinin octapeptide (CCK-8) in conscious rats.
(3) Although solely nociresponsive neurons are clearly likely to fill a role in the processing and signalling of pain in the conscious central nervous system, the way in which such useful specificity could be conveyed by multireceptive neurons is difficult to appreciate.
(4) In the present investigation we monitored the incorporation of [14C] from [U-14C]glucose into various rat brain glycolytic intermediates of conscious and pentobarbital-anesthetized animals.
(5) Concentrations of several gastrointestinal hormonal peptides were measured in lymph from the cisterna chyli and in arterial plasma; in healthy, conscious pigs during ingestion of a meal.
(6) A chronic cannulation procedure is described which allows for sampling vomeronasal organ (VNO) contents repeatedly in freely moving conscious subjects.
(7) Blood flow was measured in leg and torso skin of conscious or anesthetized sheep by using 15-micron radioactive microspheres (Qm) and the 133Xe washout method (QXe).
(8) We studied the haemodynamic (ultrasound Doppler flow probes) effects of synthetic atriopeptin II at natriuretic doses in conscious rats.
(9) The patient presented in coma but regained full consciousness over the next six hours with supportive therapy.
(10) The responses of adrenocorticotropin (ACTH), renin, epinephrine and norepinephrine and arterial pressure and heart rate (HR) to hypotensive hemorrhage were examined before and 1 h after lesion of the paraventricular nuclei (PVN) in pentobarbital-anesthetized rats and 1 day before and 4 days after lesion of the PVN in conscious rats.
(11) A 68-year-old male was hospitalized because of headache, nausea, and disturbance of consciousness.
(12) Baroreflex function was studied in conscious early phase (less than 6 weeks) two-kidney, one-clip hypertensive rats before and 24 hours after surgical reversal of hypertension by removal of the constricting renal artery clip or after pharmacological reduction of blood pressure by an infusion of hydralazine or captopril.
(13) After haemorrhage in conscious rabbits total renal blood flow fell by 25%, this fall being confined to the superficial renal cortex.
(14) Studies have also been performed in conscious rats given BP either as an intravenous bolus or by gavage.
(15) The time to recovery of full consciousness, time to parasite clearance, and mortality were examined with Cox proportional-hazards regression analysis.
(16) The results show that furosemide causes a general vasoconstriction in conscious SHR.
(17) If people improved their consciousness, things would work better.
(18) Indeed, several lines of evidence suggest that intravenous anaesthetics are thought to induce loss of consciousness by blocking the excitatory synaptic transmission.
(19) The temperature of the anterior and middle hypothalamus of conscious Pekin ducks was altered with chronically implanted thermodes.
(20) Postoperatively, an independent observer assessed conscious level, crying, posture and facial expression using a simple numerical scoring system, and also recorded heart and respiratory rates over a 2-h period.
Unconscious
Definition:
(a.) Not conscious; having no consciousness or power of mental perception; without cerebral appreciation; hence, not knowing or regarding; ignorant; as, an unconscious man.
(a.) Not known or apprehended by consciousness; as, an unconscious cerebration.
(a.) Having no knowledge by experience; -- followed by of; as, a mule unconscious of the yoke.
Example Sentences:
(1) It pulled to a halt and a bodyguard got out and knocked me unconscious.
(2) Some aspects of the life structure, of course, are also unconscious, namely, those having to do with attempted solutions to core personality conflicts and those reflecting modes of ego functioning.
(3) The length of delay is determined by unconscious, non-rational processes, and other factors beyond her control.
(4) This paper employs a rhetorical form designed to clarify and sharpen the focus of the very special stance required--which must be painstakingly learned under careful supervision--in order to effectively tune in to communications coming from the unconscious of the patient.
(5) With the use of two methods, measurement of conjugated dienes and thiobarbituric acid reactivity, brain lipid peroxidation could be documented as a result of exposure to CO at a concentration sufficient to cause unconsciousness.
(6) Foremost among the predisposing factors were measles (25%), empyema thoraxis (17%), and unconsciousness (13%).
(7) But there is something else seething in the collective unconscious.
(8) Paradigm relies heavily on social science research and analysis to help companies identify and address the specific barriers and unconscious biases that might be affecting their diversity efforts: things like anonymizing resumes so that employers can’t tell a candidate’s gender or ethnicity, or modifying a salary negotiation process that places women and minorities at a disadvantage.
(9) Unconsciousness was associated with a brief period of hypotension, so brief that in itself it caused no apparent insult.
(10) In the paper life-threatening diseases which may be accompanied by profound unconsciousness are explained from the laboratory-chemical point of view.
(11) Drawings by women alcoholics of the self, a murderer, the murderer's victim and victim's parent revealed conscious and unconscious identification with the depicted roles.
(12) For the final three visible minutes, Lockett writhed, groaned, attempted to lift himself off the gurney and tried to speak, despite a doctor having declared him unconscious.
(13) But like so many of his colleagues in the Trump administration , Spicer has shown us how unconsciousness and stupidity can, however paradoxically, assume a Machiavellian function – how a flagrant example of gross insensitivity and flat-out odiousness can serve as yet another useful and convenient distraction.
(14) The contribution of psychoanalysis to a theory of subjectivity involves the formation of a concept of the subject in which neither consciousness nor unconsciousness holds a privileged position in relation to the other; the two coexist in a mutually creating, preserving and negating relationship to one another.
(15) After transport to the hospital, arterial blood gases and the level of unconsciousness were again determined.
(16) This set was called by the authors a syndrome reflecting an overpowering, but latent, unconscious sense of crisis, of a catastrophe ("Catastrophe-syndrome").
(17) The authors hypothesized that physical effects like weight-gain, breast enlargement, and pseudopregnancy unconsciously supplement the conscious relief from fear of pregnancy to improve sexual adaptation.
(18) Both are alleged to have plied the Devon girl with drugs, raped her and left her unconscious to drown on Anjuna beach, metres from a bar in which the group had spent the evening drinking.
(19) Finally, we provide a contemporary cognitive account of the unconscious that attempts to combine the best both approaches within an information-processing framework.
(20) Monitoring clinical signs in unconscious patients provides only late information about cerebral deterioration.