(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.
Sturdy
Definition:
(superl.) Foolishly obstinate or resolute; stubborn; unrelenting; unfeeling; stern.
(superl.) Resolute, in a good sense; or firm, unyielding quality; as, a man of sturdy piety or patriotism.
(superl.) Characterized by physical strength or force; strong; lusty; violent; as, a sturdy lout.
(superl.) Stiff; stout; strong; as, a sturdy oak.
(n.) A disease in sheep and cattle, marked by great nervousness, or by dullness and stupor.
Example Sentences:
(1) The device is simple, sturdy and inexpensive and may be used as adjunct for laboratory teaching in physiology and related sciences.
(2) We have refined the technique of vascular corrosion casting with methacrylate to permit the reproduction of physiological states of vascular tone and to produce sturdy castings of ocular microvasculature.
(3) Pony trekking in Glenshiel Think soft velvety noses, shaggy mains, the heady smell of saddle soap and the reassuring squeak of leather as you saddle up for a trek into the mountains on a sturdy, sure-footed Highland pony.
(4) She said the companies should already have been aware of the dangers of dealing with Sturdy Products after a previous investigation in 2007 uncovered similar problems.
(5) His 86-year-old father, Haroldo, still lives in the modest but sturdy house they built on their plot: “Some families didn’t even have a house, especially in the early months,” Celso recalls.
(6) On Tuesday, a Reuters reporter on the island of 29,000 people, about 200km (125 miles) south of the capital, said that while damage was extensive, it appeared most of the population had survived by sheltering in schools, churches and other sturdy buildings.
(7) Roy Ward Baker, who has died aged 93, progressed from teaboy to director of sturdy British dramas to weird Hammer horrors, via Hollywood.
(8) Size matters While infrastructure remains a challenge, especially during the rainy season, Sierra Leone is small and most communities can be reached in a sturdy four-wheel drive within a day's travel from Freetown.
(9) It would never happen with the sturdy 3210, weighing 153g.
(10) The significant forces to which this joint is subjected challenge even the most sturdy prosthetic materials.
(11) PH determinations by means of a sturdy, spear-electrode inserted in the cerebellar tissue immediately after necropsy were carried out in 60 patients suffering from different disorders and dying in hospital, and from 25 individuals killed instantly by violent accidents.
(12) The Lib Dems have pledged to scrap planned cuts , but their chances of gaining influence look as sturdy as a chocolate teapot.
(13) Doubts linger about the strength of the new spine being built at Old Trafford by Mourinho (the sturdiness of the central defence is among the unknowns at this point, with much hinging on the recently recruited Eric Bailly ).
(14) When they first encounter their "admirer and pupil Zola" he strikes them as a "worn-out Normalien, at once sturdy and puny" but with "a vibrant note of pungent determination and furious energy".
(15) While the FTSE is celebrating the UK’s recent, and unexpected, economic sturdiness, the pound has its eye on a time when Britain officially no longer belongs to the European Union.” The FTSE 100 index of bluechip shares rose more than 1% to a 16-month high of 6,996.
(16) Take a sturdy tent or knock on the doors of hunters’ wooden huts when you see them.
(17) He describes himself in his most recent work Consilience as having been "laid backward under the water on the arm of a sturdy pastor" and while his atheism was complete before he went to university, he understands the need of what he calls the transcendental experience at the heart of human nature.
(18) Concerns were raised about conditions at Sturdy Products when a 45-year-old female employee, Hu Nianzhen, jumped to her death from a factory building in May after she was allegedly shouted at by managers.
(19) Eliasson insists that the lamps are sturdy and should not break: "You can drop it from a third-floor window and it still works.
(20) The hills behind and beyond Faro offer many a sturdy dinner.