(1) Lethargy and somnolence were reported on both capsule and tablet by several subjects at a time which corresponded with the maximum concentration of drug in plasma.
(2) On admission, the patient's state of consciousness deteriorated from somnolence to coma.
(3) This was generally mild and always fully reversible and consisted mainly of forgetfulness, occasionally hallucinations, nightmares and somnolence.
(4) A 63-year-old man was admitted to our hospital with tremor and somnolence, followed soon by coma.
(5) Diminished salivary flow was significantly greater with amitriptyline, as were complaints of dry mouth, somnolence, dizziness, and headache.
(6) Somnolence, hypotonia, weight gain, excitation, and insomnia were the most common problems at the beginning of the study and were usually transient.
(7) A 60-year-old woman who for many years had been taking salicylate-containing tablets for headaches, was admitted to hospital, in a somnolent state, because of increasing weakness, tiredness, memory and speech disorders, and tinnitus.
(8) The central anticholinergic syndrome (CAS) includes central signs (somnolence, confusion, amnesia, agitation, hallucinations, dysarthria, ataxia, delirium, stupor, coma) and peripheral signs (dry mouth, dry skin, tachycardia, visual disturbances and difficulty in micturition).
(9) During three month periods, the patient progressively became somnolent, speechless and immobile.
(10) Our data demonstrate that patients with diagnosable disorders of excessive somnolence may be discordant on the two tests (eg, having low sleep latency on MSLT but high sleep latency on MWT).
(11) Tolerance was good with the rare problem of somnolence.
(12) Neurological examination on admission revealed somnolence and right-hemiparesis.
(13) The clinical features include overwhelming episodes of sleep, excessive daytime somnolence, hypnagogic hallucinations, disturbed nocturnal sleep; manifestations of dissociated REM sleep inhibitory process, cataplexy and sleep paralysis; and a special polygraphic pattern: the sleep onset REM episode.
(14) Symptoms of excessive daytime somnolence range from mild to severe.
(15) Subjects with a history of post-irradiation somnolence syndrome were significantly older at diagnosis than nonsomnolent subjects.
(16) In some cases there was a marked additional fall of arterial pressure in the orthostatic position, a sensation of dryness in the mouth, weakness and mild somnolence.
(17) The results indicate that inattention and somnolence negatively influence memory performance and should be taken into account when evaluating the Amytal memory test results.
(18) Clinical symptoms include excessive daytime somnolence, overwhelming daytime sleep episodes, attacks of cataplexy, hypnagogic hallucinations, sleep paralysis and disturbed nocturnal sleep; sleep onset REM episodes are the main polygraphic feature.
(19) Patients with the hypersomnia-sleep apnea syndrome should be provided with a tracheal opening during sleep when severe daytime somnolence, cardiac arrhythmias, and hypertension are present.
(20) The decreased somnolence and increased libido and potency which accompanied therapy with levodopa suggest damage to dopaminergic and noradrenergic pathways.
Stupor
Definition:
(n.) Great diminution or suspension of sensibility; suppression of sense or feeling; lethargy.
(n.) Intellectual insensibility; moral stupidity; heedlessness or inattention to one's interests.
Example Sentences:
(1) On neurological examination, he showed stupor,pupils and eye position were normal.
(2) When outcome was examined in patients who were stuporous or comatose on admission, a significant increase in septal shift was found among patients with a poor outcome, but there was no significant relationship between outcome and degree of pineal or aqueductal shift.
(3) The clinical picture is near-monthly recurrence of episodes of stupor or excitement lasting about 1 or 2 weeks, which are accompanied by delusion and in some cases also by hallucinations or confusion.
(4) Mannitol intoxication is ordinarily characterized by confusion, lethargy, stupor, and if severe enough, coma.
(5) 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.
(6) The central anticholinergic syndrome (CAS) includes central signs (somnolence, confusion, amnesia, agitation, hallucinations, dysarthria, ataxia, delirium, stupor, coma) and peripheral signs (dry mouth, dry skin, tachycardia, visual disturbances and difficulty in micturition).
(7) Stupor or coma at onset occurred more frequently in the IVH (62%) than in the INF (6%) or ICH (13%) groups and was reflected in significantly lower median Glasgow Coma Scores in the IVH group (7) than in the INF (15) and ICH (14) groups.
(8) Compared to saline- and endotoxin-infused rats, animals receiving the monokine mixture had no change in mean arterial blood pressure or heart rate but exhibited overt signs of morbidity including stupor and diarrhea.
(9) If rehydration is accomplished too rapidly the child becomes edematous, develops increased intracranial pressure, stupor, and convulsions.
(10) Grade II indicates disturbance of consciousness (stupor), or progressive neurological deficits, and size of hematoma less than 50 mm without acute hydrocephalus.
(11) The patient became stuporous and died 7 months after admission.
(12) Dexamethasone was administered when the increase in enzyme levels caused the patient to fall into a stupor.
(13) To determine the incidence of this pattern in children in stupor or coma, 154 portable EEGs in 111 children with mental status changes were reviewed.
(14) Increased escape behavior, heterogrooming, squeaking, and two cases of stupor were observed, suggesting possible equivalents of anxiousness.
(15) They are the stiff, stuporous confusion state, as well as the anxious, agitated confusion state.
(16) This case was compared with others in the literature for which the origin of the stuporous state have been hypothesized.
(17) In this group only three cases died due to neurological condition in grade III-IV (Stupor and Coma).
(18) The clinical signs showed: vomiting, dehydration, Kussamaul's respiration, sopor, stupor and in 5 cases a state of coma.
(19) It was considered as likely that the Delirium metabolicum represented an exogenous (organic) psychotic syndrome, and that the precipitation of the psychosis as well as its development into an enfeebled endstate was due to an organic brain lesion, while the catatoniformpsychomotor phenomena and the melancholic stupor were crystalisations of traits in the premorbid personality.
(20) It was she who refused to believe the Goan police's assertion that her daughter had merely drowned in an alcoholic, drug-induced stupor, one more hapless victim of Anjuna's dark underworld.