(v. i.) To sleep imperfectly or unsoundly; to slumber; to be heavy with sleepiness; to doze.
(v. t.) To make heavy with sleepiness or imperfect sleep; to make dull or stupid.
(n.) A slight or imperfect sleep; a doze.
Example Sentences:
(1) Most drowsings on the second night appeared during the first 2-4 hr of duty.
(2) Of 198 near accidents reported during 2,290 trips, 34 cases, or 1,5 cases per 100 trips, were operation missess involving drowsing or strong drowsiness.
(3) They exhibited more non-alert waking activity, more alert, more drowse or transition, and less active sleep than did the Non-Theophylline and Fullterm infants.
(4) A taxonomy of infants' behavioral states is described, composed of ten Primary States: Alert, Nonalert Waking, Fuss, Cry, Drowse, Daze, Sleep-Wake Transition, Active Sleep, Active-Quiet Transition, and Quiet Sleep.
(5) The symptoms were relieved in 96.6% of the patients without any side effect of drowse, fatigue etc.
(6) Improper operation due to drowsing occurred at a certain rate for any group of drivers, irrespective of the type of train, running sections, weather, and other operative conditions such as train delays, whereas 117 cases of danger caused by unforeseen obstacles on the track were related to site characteristics, and 47 cases of other disorders were frequent in unusual operative conditions such as arrival-departure, poor signal display, wrong instructions, or equipment failure.
(7) Over the total 7-hr day, the premature infants spent more time in alert, nonalert waking activity, and sleep-wake transition than the full-terms, and they spent less time in drowse and total sleep.
(8) The incidence of drowsings as a cause of near traffic accidents was studied on the basis of daily recordings or near accidental events by 288 locomotive drivers during a rotation period of 2-3 weeks.
(9) Birds flitted in and out of the olive trees and shadows drowsed around the swimming pool beneath the ancient carob tree.
(10) Over each 7-hour observation, the following states were recorded every 10 seconds: Alert, Non-Alert Waking Activity, Fussing, Crying, Daze, Drowse, Sleep-Wake Transition, Active Sleep, Quiet Sleep, and Unclassified Sleep (sleep during periods of the day when a mother was holding her baby).
(11) For example, the prematures exhibited more fuss or cry and more drowse when alone; whereas the full-terms exhibited more of these states when with their mothers.
Sleepy
Definition:
(n.) Drowsy; inclined to, or overcome by, sleep.
(n.) Tending to induce sleep; soporiferous; somniferous; as, a sleepy drink or potion.
(n.) Dull; lazy; heavy; sluggish.
(n.) Characterized by an absence of watchfulness; as, sleepy security.
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) Narcolepsy is a neurological disorder characterized by sleepiness and episodes of cataplexy.
(3) Nominees: Sticks and Stones, Maroon Productions for Channel 4 Charlie and Lola "I am not sleepy and I will not go to bed", Tiger Aspect Productions for BBC Children's Breakthrough Award - Behind the Screen Jonathan Smith - Make Me Normal, Century Films for Channel 4 "The jury said that this year's winner had directed a moving and inspiring documentary which forced the audience to consider the impact of autism and Aspergers syndrome and how it can impact on the lives of those it affects."
(4) 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.
(5) 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.
(6) At the same time we evaluated the effect of DGAVP on mood, alertness or sleepiness in a double-blind placebo-control design.
(7) It is the most preponderant finding among patients referred to diagnostic sleep laboratories, particularly among patients complaining of excessive daytime sleepiness.
(8) Before undergoing a polysomnographic examination, 123 patients filled in a questionnaire inquiring about fatigue and sleepiness while driving a vehicle as well as accidents during the past three years.
(9) Danger signs of stridor and abnormal sleepiness were poorly recognised (sensitivity 0-50%) by the health care workers, as was audible wheeze.
(10) "The business department stopped being a sleepy backwater and became a great office of state," he said.
(11) The authors describe the clinical picture of a case with a peak-wave stupor in a 16 year-old patient where the main clinical expression of this disorder was behavioural sleepiness.
(12) Migration has turned a sleepy town with a population of 31,000 in 1872 into today's megacity of 21 million, the ninth-biggest city in the world and South America's wealthiest and most important economic hub.
(13) The results indicate that a moderate dose of ethanol significantly increases physiological sleepiness during early morning hours even in individuals that are relatively alert at these times.
(14) Anxiety trait (Spielberg State Anxiety Trait) did not correlate with sleepiness, but higher anxiety scores were significantly associated with poor performance.
(15) Feelings of sleepiness, lasting several hours after waking, were more common after thiopentone than after etomidate.
(16) However, the EEG scores strongly suggested that volunteers were more sleepy at 8 h after nitrazepam in comparison to placebo or midazolam.
(17) The late nap was more efficient in reducing sleepiness during the last 5 h of the experiments (23.00-04.00).
(18) When the effects of age and time of day were partialed out, PLR data suggest that increased sleepiness as measured by MSLT is significantly correlated with increased parasympathetic activity (r = -0.60, p less than 0.01) and not with decreased sympathetic activity (r = -0.24, not significant).
(19) REPEATABILITY: scores were high, ranging from 0.92 to 0.99, for all symptoms except flushing (all grades 0.91), nausea (all grades 0.90) and sleepiness (severe, 0.82) (method of Bulpitt et al).
(20) These were unrelated to such factors as age of delivery, percentage weight gain, the baby's sex or birth weight, alcohol consumption, smoking, a history of migraine or allergy or other symptoms occurring during pregnancy such as sleepiness and lack of concentration, irritability, loss of interest in job or nightmares.