| 单词 | twilight sleep |
| 释义 | twilight sleepnoun Medicine/Medical.a state of semiconsciousness, usually produced by hypodermic injections of scopolamine and morphine, used chiefly to effect relatively painless childbirth. Origin of twilight sleepFirst recorded in 1910–15 Words nearby twilight sleeptwig borer, twig girdler, twiggy, twilight, Twilight of the Gods, twilight sleep, twilight state, twilight zone, twilit, twill, twill weave Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for twilight sleep
British Dictionary definitions for twilight sleeptwilight sleep nounmed a state of partial anaesthesia in which the patient retains a slight degree of consciousness Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Medical definitions for twilight sleeptwilight sleep [ twī′līt′ ] n.An amnesic condition characterized by insensibility to pain without loss of consciousness, induced by an injection of morphine and scopolamine, formerly used to relieve the pain of childbirth. The American Heritage® Stedman's Medical Dictionary Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. |
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