(n.) The time during which there is daylight, as distinguished from the night.
Example Sentences:
(1) Aside from snoring, excessive daytime sleepiness was on average often the first symptom and began at a mean age of 36 years.
(2) Both systolic (p < 0.05) and diastolic (p < 0.01) pressure responses to standing were related to the day-night blood pressure difference and to the standard deviation from mean daytime blood pressure.
(3) The ventilatory assistance was only used at night and resulted in rapid resolution of early morning symptoms and a return to full daytime activity.
(4) We investigated the relationships between sleep variables and daytime pulmonary haemodynamics in 40 COPD patients with daytime arterial oxygen tension (PaO2) between 60-70 mmHg (8-9.3 kPa).
(5) It is concluded that imaging of the urinary tract is not necessary for pure nightwetters, while ultrasonography or uroflowmetry and more sophisticated radiological or urological methods should be focused on those children with daytime wetting and clinical symptoms of voiding disturbances.
(6) Diagnostic signs: a physiological inversion of the circadian rhythm may be observed in people who sleep during the daytime and work at night.
(7) Daytime care in a clinical setting today is feasible in a number of situations, e.g.
(8) The main disabling symptom of narcolepsy-cataplexy is shown to be the unrelenting excessive daytime sleepiness (EDS) based upon controlled studies of socioeconomic effects and the poor response to treatment.
(9) In the thecal cells, however, mitotic activity in most of the follicles was distinctly higher in the daytime (16.00 h) than at night (22.00 h, i.e., evening).
(10) We conclude that there is a heterogeneous subpopulation of patients with sleep disorders whose symptoms of daytime sleepiness will show no treatment-related improvement in daytime symptoms if they are evaluated only by the MSLT.
(11) The pH of their gastric contents was measured at hourly daytime and two hourly nighttime intervals for 48 hours.
(12) In order to investigate the possible alterations of electrical activity of aged rat pineal glands, electrophysiological recordings in 3- and 18-month-old male Sprague-Dawley rats were undertaken at both daytime and nighttime.
(13) "It is less about those two presenters and more revising the direction that the station is going in, which will change the sound of the daytime shows," he said.Yates will continue to present the two weekend afternoon shows on his own.
(14) Flashback patients reported more frequent intrusive items on average and, specifically, more frequent daytime mental imagery.
(15) The discharges were analysed and quantified in the same way as in daytime but here in relation to the organization of sleep.
(16) A single set of clinic blood pressure measurements is quite sensitive for diagnosing daytime hypertension, although its accuracy, specificity and predictive value are low.
(17) Although I miss the daytime output I'm pleased we protected our peak.
(18) It is the most preponderant finding among patients referred to diagnostic sleep laboratories, particularly among patients complaining of excessive daytime sleepiness.
(19) We feel that the increased use of a wheelchair for daytime and evening sitting was a prominent causative factor of the radial nerve paralysis in the cases reported here, and we suspect that this syndrome is being overlooked.
(20) Sensitizers, who were I recallers, had very low daytime self-confidence scores.
Gloaming
Definition:
(n.) Twilight; dusk; the fall of the evening.
(n.) Sullenness; melancholy.
Example Sentences:
(1) I was happily haunted for many years afterwards by the spooky gothic stairs, halls, corridors and windows I had witnessed vanishing into a kind of architectural gloaming even in the middle of a bright June day.
(2) A s the air cools in a fir-lined valley east of Croatia's Velebit mountains, the bears of Kuterevo stir to life in the gloaming.
(3) I’d arrived a bit late for its golden age (my adventures in the medium took place somewhere between sunset and the gloaming of that particular period), but it was enjoyable enough.
(4) I can just see him in the gloaming, sat in his make-believe producer's chair, fantasising about presiding over a set of Hollywood stars at his beck and call.
(5) In the early morning gloaming, they descend into the network of subterranean passages that span the few hundreds metres across the Gazan border, into Egypt.
(6) Out walking after dinner, I stumbled across a group of around 100 women who, in the gloaming, filled a square with exquisitely choreographed dancing, arms making great sweeps of the sky, moving as one, like a flock of murmurating birds.
(7) You're struck by their ability to shift their sound completely between songs – from the crushing bass-heavy riff of Myxamatosis to These Are My Twisted Words's spindly, thin, cyclical guitars to the unsettling electronic abstraction of The Gloaming.
(8) No sudden appearances from David Starkey, looming out of the historical gloaming like the ghost of a cantankerous 1930s dinner lady.
(9) For a long time I most appreciated local colours in the gloaming when light was in the sky and streets were lit artificially.
(10) Updated at 1.38am BST 1.21am BST Wandering the town 12.59am BST This is the gloaming We've entered the American "witching hour", the time between work and everything else.
(11) While David retreats into an ever-deepening huff ("Nothing makes me happy these days"), relentlessly perky overspender Jackie stumbles through the financial gloaming like a woman who has been hit over the head with a dollar-shaped frying pan.
(12) I always feel strongly that line in The Gloaming: 'You are murderers – we are not the same as you'.
(13) Our conversation begins to tail off: the gloaming and the sense of anti-climax in the car are doing their work (the farm, all clapboard and rickety outbuildings, wasn't right for April and Ken; they want a beautiful place, so people can stay and attend cookery classes).
(14) The Champs Élysées in the gloaming: a dream venue for a romantic evening.
(15) A few years after the boycott it was snowing outside the Royal Albert Hall for an evening tournament in December and Pilic emerged from the picturesque car-park gloaming in a great long leather coat and carrying his rackets like rifles.