(n.) The state of being conscious; knowledge of one's own existence, condition, sensations, mental operations, acts, etc.
(n.) Immediate knowledge or perception of the presence of any object, state, or sensation. See the Note under Attention.
(n.) Feeling, persuasion, or expectation; esp., inward sense of guilt or innocence.
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.
Oneirism
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) In one patient, the auditory hallucinosis was followed by a period of visual hallucinations and oneiric delusions.
(2) The clinical picture of a tumour involving the amygdaloid nucleus was characterized over a period of 6 years by generalised epileptic fits, then a state of agitated delirium with oneirism evolving during 2 months and leading finally to pulmonary embolism.
(3) It has been found that the main direction of the therapeutic pathomorphosis in the studied group is the appearance in the structure of attacks of the alternately changing main forms of alcoholic psychoses-delirium, verbal hallucinosis, and paranoid, as well as an increase in the number of patients with consciousness disturbances of delirious or delirious-oneiric type by the end of the attack.
(4) The relation between oneiric behavior and rapid eye movements (REMs) in paradoxical sleep (PS) without muscle atonia was analyzed in cats.
(5) The constituents of the syndrome distinguished (orientation disturbances, theatrical effectiveness of hallucinations with fantastic plot, participation of the patient in the capacity of an active character in the play, episodes of relatively short duration, their relation to the sleep-consciousness cycle, and so forth) permit one to specify it as oneiric.
(6) Over the period of follow-up (4-8 years) the author analyzed 23 affective-oneiric and 50 affective-delirious attacks of schizophrenia and traced the history of patients at the age of 18-23 years.
(7) Nocturnal fears with a psychomotor excitement, illusions, hallucinations, and figurative delirium in the structure of dream (oneiric) derangement of consciousness were dominant in the disease picture.
(8) In 8 of the 12 patients, delirious or oneiric behavior appeared during, or soon after, the episodes of stage 1-REM.
(9) Muscle atonia disappeared during rapid eye movement (REM) sleep, permitting movements and expression of feelings probably associated with REM sleep-related oneiric activity.
(10) These events are commonly regarded as physiological correlates of oneiric behavior.
(11) The latter finding is tentatively interpreted as due to a more direct access to aspects of oneiric material structured in the left hemisphere by right-handers, whose language centers are located in the same hemisphere.
(12) Their experience of intensive care and their psychosensorial problems were as follows: temperospatial disorientation, perturbation of the sense of posture, hallucinations which could go as far as oneiric delirium, anguish and symptoms of depression.
(13) We dream workers of the late twentieth century should therefore fortify ourselves with knowledge of the oneiric past as one important way to enhance our dream work in the twenty-first century.