What's the difference between drowsy and lulling?

Drowsy


Definition:

  • (superl.) Inclined to drowse; heavy with sleepiness; lethargic; dozy.
  • (superl.) Disposing to sleep; lulling; soporific.
  • (superl.) Dull; stupid.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) YOH shifted the healthy subjects' mood towards feeling panicked, elevated systolic blood pressure and plasma prolactin concentrations, reduced digit symbol substitution, and induced drowsiness and passiveness.
  • (2) Side-effects (pruritus, nausea, vomiting, drowsiness) were also noted.
  • (3) MIDAZOLAM IS SUPERIOR TO DIAZEPAM IN CERTAIN WAYS: it has a more rapid onset; produces greater anterograde amnesia, less postoperative drowsiness, less venous irritation and less likelihood of thrombophlebitis development.
  • (4) Drowsiness and altered taste perception were increased significantly over placebo only in the high-dose azelastine group.
  • (5) Long-acting drugs and techniques that are associated with excessive drowsiness or nausea and vomiting should not be utilized.
  • (6) At altitude, temazepam led to less wakefulness and to drowsy sleep--there were no prolonged sleep latencies.
  • (7) The lowest recovery rate was observed in drowsy patients operated on between 4 and 10 days from the hemorrhage.
  • (8) Fatigue, drowsiness, and attention were self-rated using visual analogue scales; oral temperature was self-measured and a letter cancellation test was performed.
  • (9) Experimental evidence shows that during drowsiness, disfacilitation in thalamic and cortical neurons (by partial removal of influences from mesopontine, posterior hypothalamic, and basal forebrain activating systems) may coexist with active hypnogenic mechanisms.
  • (10) Ethanol alone impaired manual dexterity, increased drowsiness, reduced 'clearheadedness' and also tended to reduce feelings of aggression.
  • (11) However, both isomers showed different effects on the EEG and animal's behavior following convulsions; e.g., the cocaine-induced convulsions were followed by low-voltage fast waves in the EEGs associated with behavioral hyperexcitation, while pseudococaine-induced convulsions were followed by high-voltage slow waves associated with behavioral depression and drowsiness with intermittent sleep.
  • (12) However, mice treated topically with spiperone, unlike those treated systemically, exhibited no drowsiness or other evidence of central nervous system effects.
  • (13) The drug reduced the frequency of transitions into wakefulness and stage 1 (drowsiness) and reduced the time spent in stage 1; there was a withdrawal rebound.
  • (14) Adverse reactions to phenothiazines, including hypotension, sedation, drowsiness, extrapyramidal symptoms, tardive dyskinesia, cardiac toxicity and agranulocytosis, are often more common and severe than those attributed to narcotic analgesics.
  • (15) Apomorphine produced severe drowsiness in the PPS patients.
  • (16) Patients who received lorazepam or oxazepam also experienced significantly more severe drowsiness than those patients receiving methylprednisolone (both P less than 0.001).
  • (17) Side effects (principally drowsiness, ataxia, headache) occurred mainly during the initiation of therapy and decreased during therapy.
  • (18) Adverse effects of H1 blockers on the brain, such as drowsiness, may be produced as a consequence of this inhibitory action.
  • (19) The differences included slower alpha and more theta during THC experiences, reminiscent of initial drowsiness EEG, and of some results in schizophrenia.
  • (20) Neurological examination on admission: The patient was in drowsy state, papilledema on the both sides and right hemiparesis including the face were noted.

Lulling


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Lull

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Dictated by underlying physicochemical constraints, deceived at times by the lulling tones of the siren entropy, and constantly vulnerable to the vagaries of other more pervasive forms of biological networking and information transfer encoded in the genes of virus and invading microorganisms, protein biorecognition in higher life forms, and particularly in mammals, represents the finely tuned molecular avenues for the genome to transfer its information to the next generation.
  • (2) Spurs were almost sleepwalking to a comfortable win, with even the crowd lulled into the inevitability of it all, when sloppiness flared.
  • (3) The reason for this odd period of apparent inactivity is not just the lull caused by the summer break or even the shock of the British vote to leave the EU.
  • (4) A definite increase was noticed in the number of cases per block following lull years in 1984 and 1987.
  • (5) There was anecdotal evidence to suggest revenge pornography images were being circulated among teenagers in schools and applications such as Snapchat (where photos disappear after a few seconds) were lulling young people into a false sense of security.
  • (6) There's a brief lull as Seattle try to just get their collective foot on the ball and try to maybe calm what's still a fantastically raucous crowd.
  • (7) Let us not forget that returning veterans of the "war to end all wars were promised a "land fit for heroes", yet what they got post-1918 was poverty, squalor, unemployment and, after a short lull, more war.
  • (8) So, something of a summer lull, but we'll do our best.
  • (9) There's a lull while Mark Hudson gets treatment for cramp.
  • (10) Word of their last-minute intervention to delay the sanctions never filtered down to working-level officials at the State Department during the holiday lull.
  • (11) 6.15am After an hour and a half of furious exchanges, there was a lull in the fighting.
  • (12) Animals that were subjected to sham surgery or anesthesia alone showed a delay of 4.4 h in the reappearance of LH secretion, similar to the lull in LH pulsations normally observed at the time of day.
  • (13) First comes a feeling of euphoria: then the diver gets overconfident, lulled into a false sense of security, and dangerously overestimates how long they have left.
  • (14) Shortly after 4pm there was a brief lull when Father Hugh Mullan, a 40-year-old priest who lived in Springfield Park, remonstrated with the crowds.
  • (15) After a deliberately hazy and meandering first half – one that lulls both reader and characters into a false sense of security – the second part of the novel barely breathes.
  • (16) The poem is structured like a lament, the soldiers' epitaphs interspersed with direct translations of Homer's extended similes, each of which is transcribed, lullingly, twice over.
  • (17) The next time you hear mollifying words from Rudd that our rising debt levels are at reasonable levels compared to other countries, think about how Britons were lulled into the financial danger zone and ask yourself: are we on the same trajectory?
  • (18) At the moment, there's a bit of a lull and it's very quiet.
  • (19) Midnight in Paris , his biggest box-office earner to date , might have lulled you into assuming late-stage Allen was pipe-and-slippers stuff.
  • (20) Barcelona did succeed in lulling United into a false sense of security, however, for when they put together their first meaningful attack after 10 minutes the defensive line in front of Van der Sar crumbled alarmingly to allow the goalkeeper to be beaten at his near post.

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