obtundedadj.
/əbˈtʌndᵻd/, /ɒbˈtʌndᵻd/, U.S. /ɑbˈtəndəd/ Chiefly Medicine.
Blunted, deadened; dulled; (later, Medicine) exhibiting obtundation.In quot. a1644: spec. deafened.
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a1644 F. Quarles Shepheards Oracles (1646) 19 What ayles this peevish Shepheard? I attended Till I was tyred, and his Tale was ended; What would'st thou more with my obtunded eare?
1850 J. Ogilvie Imperial Dict. Obtunded, blunted; quelled; deadened.
1969 Jrnl. Pediatrics 74 977/1 The patient remained anuric, obtunded, hypertensive, and became progressively azotemic.
1978 Diabetes 27 611 Selected aspects of phosphate metabolism may be immature in fetal islets and, perhaps, implicated in their obtunded secretion of insulin in response to stimulation with glucose.
1990 Brain 113 2 She was admitted to hospital obtunded and remained somnolent for the first 10 days.
2000 Epileptic Disorders 2 185 Larger, prospective studies will be needed to truly determine the prognosis in the different types of NCSE [= nonconvulsive status epilepticus], stratified according to associated degrees of impairment (minimally impaired, moderately obtunded, comatose).
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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