(v. i.) To take rest by a suspension of the voluntary exercise of the powers of the body and mind, and an apathy of the organs of sense; to slumber.
(v. i.) To be careless, inattentive, or uncouncerned; not to be vigilant; to live thoughtlessly.
(v. i.) To be dead; to lie in the grave.
(v. i.) To be, or appear to be, in repose; to be quiet; to be unemployed, unused, or unagitated; to rest; to lie dormant; as, a question sleeps for the present; the law sleeps.
(v. t.) To be slumbering in; -- followed by a cognate object; as, to sleep a dreamless sleep.
(v. t.) To give sleep to; to furnish with accomodations for sleeping; to lodge.
(v. i.) A natural and healthy, but temporary and periodical, suspension of the functions of the organs of sense, as well as of those of the voluntary and rational soul; that state of the animal in which there is a lessened acuteness of sensory perception, a confusion of ideas, and a loss of mental control, followed by a more or less unconscious state.
Example Sentences:
(1) AEDs may also have differential effects on nighttime sleep.
(2) It is supposed that delta-sleep peptide along with other oligopeptides is one of the factors determining individual animal resistance to emotional stress, which is supported by significant delta-sleep peptide increase in hypothalamus in stable rats.
(3) For assessment of clinical status, investigators must rely on the use of standardized instruments for patient self-reporting of fatigue, mood disturbance, functional status, sleep disorder, global well-being, and pain.
(4) We investigated whether these peptides also affect the sleep EEG in humans when given intravenously by comparing polysomnographically the effects of four boluses of (1) placebo, (2) 50 micrograms GHRH or (3) 50 micrograms SRIF administered at 22.00, 23.00, 24.00 and 1.00 h to 7 male controls.
(5) Polygraphic recordings during sleep were performed on 18 elderly persons (age range: 64-100 years).
(6) This was carried out on the healthy subjects for a total of 12 nights without medication (control nights asleep), a total of 12 nights following 40 mg of flucortolone the previous morning, and a total of 6 nights with similar blood sampling when sleep was prevented (control nights awake).
(7) Although temazepam was effective for maintaining sleep with short-term use, there was rapid development of tolerance for this effect with intermediate-term use.
(8) The occurrence of episodes of desaturation during sleep in patients suffering from chronic airflow obstruction is well known.
(9) A lower than normal percentage of REM sleep in these patients was consistent with their retarded intellectual development, which supports current thinking that REM sleep may be a sensitive index of brain function integrity.
(10) Amine metabolites, 5-hydroxyindoleacetic acid (5HIAA), and homovanillic acid (HVA) were not substantially affected by sleep deprivation, although there was a significant interaction of clinical response and direction of 3-methoxy-4-hydroxyphenylglycol (MHPG) change.
(11) Results of sleep sampling under electroencephalographic control of the assessment of GH secretion are comparable to conventional pharmacological studies in terms of efficiency, sensitivity, and percentage false-negatives.
(12) Sleep was defined behaviorally as failure to respond to the faint auditory RT cue.
(13) We have evaluated the action of hypnotics on the sleep-wakefulness cycle in freely implanted rats during their maximally active period because it is easier to estimate the duration of the sedative effect.
(14) However, patients can be taught how to retard the onset of wrinkles by avoiding unprotected sun exposure, unnecessary facial movements, and certain sleeping positions.
(15) The analogy with infant sleep patterns and results of studies of brain function in narcoleptics suggest that forebrain inhibitory processes are more important in narcoleptic symptomology than is brainstem dysfunction.
(16) In short term clinical studies, the beneficial effects of transdermal estradiol on plasma gonadotrophins, maturation of the vaginal epithelium, metabolic parameters of bone resorption and menopausal symptoms (hot flushes, sleep disturbance, genitourinary discomfort and mood alteration) appear to be comparable to those of oral and subcutaneous estrogens, while the undesirable effects of oral estrogens on hepatic metabolism are avoided.
(17) Sleep alterations in addicted newborns could be related to central nervous system (CNS) distress caused by withdrawal.
(18) "Our black, Muslim and Jewish citizens will sleep much less easily now the BBC has legitimised the BNP by treating its racist poison as the views of just another mainstream political party when it is so uniquely evil and dangerous."
(19) Stage REM frequently appeared within 10 min of stage 1 onset and the normal sequence of stages REM and 4 were altered, demonstrating that the organization of sleep within a nap is quite different from that in monophasic nocturnal sleep.
(20) This result is discussed in terms of either a function of time-of-day effect or of prior sleep intensity.
Waken
Definition:
(v. i.) To wake; to cease to sleep; to be awakened.
(v. t.) To excite or rouse from sleep; to wake; to awake; to awaken.
(v. t.) To excite; to rouse; to move to action; to awaken.
Example Sentences:
(1) Only a relatively low level of correlation between the degree of wakening and reduction in slow-wave sleep was noted in depressed patients.
(2) A good clinical response was thought to be predicted by the presence of psychomotor retardation, depressive delusions, depressed mood, early morning wakening, diurnal variation, loss of appetite, and agitation.
(3) The distribution of states and corresponding heart rate values were tabulated for each minute during 2-hr periods preceding and following wakenings with and without feedings.
(4) Experiments on wakening from "rapid" and "slow" sleep, as well as clinical and epidemiological studies revealed differences in the reports of dreams.
(5) Contrary to the generally accepted criterion for the organicity of pruritus, psychiatric and possibly sleep pathologic factors rather than primary dermatologic factors determined the wakenings from sleep as a result of pruritus.
(6) In this patient, night terrors seemed to be precipitated by nocturnal noises wakening him from deep sleep.
(7) As wakenings from REM sleep were 21(8) minutes later in the night than those from non-REM sleep multivariate analysis was performed to differentiate temporal effects from those related to the stage of sleep.
(8) Most patients with asthma waken with nocturnal asthma from time to time.
(9) For right-handers there was a significant right ear advantage (REA) only after REM wakenings, which was equal in magnitude to the REA obtained during waking.
(10) Patients with both a high daily caffeine intake and excessively delayed wakening at weekends (each defined as greater than the mean for the whole group) had a 69% risk of weekend headache.
(11) Transient awakenings increased significantly on the first drug night, and wakening latency decreased.
(12) Two broad types of insomnia may often be distinguished: (1) difficulty falling asleep and frequent wakening, characteristic of anxiety states or obsessive worrying; and (2) early morning wakening, sometimes in a panic, suggestive of endogenous depression.
(13) This may ensure high intensity of protein biosynthesis at increase in body temperature during wakening.
(14) Fifteen per cent of the sample presented significant sleep problems, particularly in the form of intermittent wakenings.
(15) They were asked for mentation reports as follows: after lying awake with external stimulation (W), after lying awake without external stimulation (WO), and after being wakened from REM sleep.
(16) My day starts at 6am when I am rudely wakened by screech my alarm clock.
(17) Eight normal male subjects received 1 mg dexamethasone at 23.00 h and 0.5 mg on wakening followed by a physiological intravenous dose of synthetic ACTH1-24 250 ng, with and without the administration of a stable met-enkephalin analogue (guanyl-DAMME, 100 micrograms) 10 minutes prior to the ACTH.
(18) These remained stable; patients needed only a short time to waken, and were quickly able to again cooperate with the doctor.
(19) However, after wakening during the night, patients exhibited a higher tendency to return to REMS than controls.
(20) Despite they did not receive liver transplantation, both patients wakened from coma, their liver function improved, and they recovered from terminal amatoxin poisoning.