What's the difference between somnambulate and somnambulism?

Somnambulate


Definition:

  • (v. i. & t.) To walk when /sleep.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) (5) The part played by these modifications during the first hours of sleep in the occurrence of night terrors and somnambulism is discussed.
  • (2) We compared the sleep characteristics of seven healthy elderly people complaining of nocturnal somnambulism-like behaviors with those of 14 age-matched healthy elderly people who had never shown such behavior.
  • (3) MacMillan was nevertheless a precocious dance-maker, and even his earliest experiments – Somnambulism (1953), Laiderette (1954) – showed his distinctive choreographic flair.
  • (4) Disturbances linked with sleep are snoring, somnambulism, speaking and grinding of the teeth during sleep and nocturnal enuresis.
  • (5) Using these methods we were able to differentiate a sleep disorder (somnambulism) from his grandmal epilepsy.
  • (6) Ever since the arrival of "our" pandas, a stampede of visitors has seen the once somnambulant finances of the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland firmly perk up.
  • (7) Among the disorders of sleep, insomnia is a far more common problem of medical management than are enuresis, narcolepsy, somnambulism or nightmares.
  • (8) Psychic or organic moments may trigger somnambulance if there exists a readiness for this form of reaction.
  • (9) Night terrors and other sleep disturbances, such as somnambulism, are disorders of arousal (Broughton, 1968; Fisher, Kahn, Edwards, & Davis, 1973; Guilleminault, 1987).
  • (10) Much to the dismay of its creators, Blue Lines is also viewed in pop historical terms as the prototype of trip-hop, a downbeat genre that merged elements of American hiphop, funk and Jamaican dub reggae into a somnambulant, skunk-fuelled soundtrack to British inner-city life.
  • (11) The possibility that migraine and somnambulism appearing in the same patient at different ages might be the expression of a same neurochemical disorder is discussed.
  • (12) (1) The sleep pattern of 23 children, aged 5-12 years, with episodic nocturnal phenomena (night-terrors, somnambulism, rhythmic movements) was recorded during two successive nights.
  • (13) Night terrors and somnambulism (NTS) are defined as disorders of arousal occurring in children during Stage 3 to 4 of NREM (non-rapid eye movement) sleep.
  • (14) Somnambulism and migraine appear at different ages, the former in the late infancy, the latter in childhood and both could be due to a disorder of serotonin metabolism.
  • (15) Looking for frequency of somnambulism in 3 homogeneous groups of children, a first group of migrainous children, a second group of epileptic children and a third group of normal children, the authors have observed that an antecedent of somnambulism existed in 28% of migrainous children, when it was found in only 6% of epileptic children, and in 5% of normal children.
  • (16) A 39-year-old man with schizoaffective disorder experienced somnambulism only when taking a combination of lithium carbonate, chlorpromazine, triazolam, and benztropine.
  • (17) The problem of somnambulism is discussed in this paper by reference to the present state of research in this field.
  • (18) The practical interest to know this association is that somnambulism may be a real clinical marker of migrainous background that should be searched for in every patient presenting with chronic cephalalgia.
  • (19) There were no relations between epilepsy and somnambulism.
  • (20) This kind of psychotherapy is applied for the first time as a therapy for somnambulism.

Somnambulism


Definition:

  • (n.) A condition of the nervous system in which an individual during sleep performs actions approppriate to the waking state; a state of sleep in which some of the senses and voluntary powers are partially awake; noctambulism.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) (5) The part played by these modifications during the first hours of sleep in the occurrence of night terrors and somnambulism is discussed.
  • (2) We compared the sleep characteristics of seven healthy elderly people complaining of nocturnal somnambulism-like behaviors with those of 14 age-matched healthy elderly people who had never shown such behavior.
  • (3) MacMillan was nevertheless a precocious dance-maker, and even his earliest experiments – Somnambulism (1953), Laiderette (1954) – showed his distinctive choreographic flair.
  • (4) Disturbances linked with sleep are snoring, somnambulism, speaking and grinding of the teeth during sleep and nocturnal enuresis.
  • (5) Using these methods we were able to differentiate a sleep disorder (somnambulism) from his grandmal epilepsy.
  • (6) Ever since the arrival of "our" pandas, a stampede of visitors has seen the once somnambulant finances of the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland firmly perk up.
  • (7) Among the disorders of sleep, insomnia is a far more common problem of medical management than are enuresis, narcolepsy, somnambulism or nightmares.
  • (8) Psychic or organic moments may trigger somnambulance if there exists a readiness for this form of reaction.
  • (9) Night terrors and other sleep disturbances, such as somnambulism, are disorders of arousal (Broughton, 1968; Fisher, Kahn, Edwards, & Davis, 1973; Guilleminault, 1987).
  • (10) Much to the dismay of its creators, Blue Lines is also viewed in pop historical terms as the prototype of trip-hop, a downbeat genre that merged elements of American hiphop, funk and Jamaican dub reggae into a somnambulant, skunk-fuelled soundtrack to British inner-city life.
  • (11) The possibility that migraine and somnambulism appearing in the same patient at different ages might be the expression of a same neurochemical disorder is discussed.
  • (12) (1) The sleep pattern of 23 children, aged 5-12 years, with episodic nocturnal phenomena (night-terrors, somnambulism, rhythmic movements) was recorded during two successive nights.
  • (13) Night terrors and somnambulism (NTS) are defined as disorders of arousal occurring in children during Stage 3 to 4 of NREM (non-rapid eye movement) sleep.
  • (14) Somnambulism and migraine appear at different ages, the former in the late infancy, the latter in childhood and both could be due to a disorder of serotonin metabolism.
  • (15) Looking for frequency of somnambulism in 3 homogeneous groups of children, a first group of migrainous children, a second group of epileptic children and a third group of normal children, the authors have observed that an antecedent of somnambulism existed in 28% of migrainous children, when it was found in only 6% of epileptic children, and in 5% of normal children.
  • (16) A 39-year-old man with schizoaffective disorder experienced somnambulism only when taking a combination of lithium carbonate, chlorpromazine, triazolam, and benztropine.
  • (17) The problem of somnambulism is discussed in this paper by reference to the present state of research in this field.
  • (18) The practical interest to know this association is that somnambulism may be a real clinical marker of migrainous background that should be searched for in every patient presenting with chronic cephalalgia.
  • (19) There were no relations between epilepsy and somnambulism.
  • (20) This kind of psychotherapy is applied for the first time as a therapy for somnambulism.

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