narcosis

IPA: nɑrkˈoʊsɪs

(pathology) Unconsciousness caused by a drug, anaesthetic or other chemical substance.

Examples of "narcosis" in Sentences

Even under the best circumstances, some nitrogen narcosis occurred at this depth.
Other researchers established that the crabs were suffering from a kind of narcosis induced by hydrocarbon poisoning.
I would also like to add that the term "narcosis" refers to someone who has been rendered unconscious by a general anesthetic, not someone on the mild effects of cannabis.
Scopolamine was found to produce a state of excitement followed by a kind of narcosis in which, in the transition state between consciousness and sleep, hallucinations sometimes occur
And everything is swathed in glove leather and Alcantara, trimmed in a choice of three varieties of wood, bezeled in well-crafted aluminum brightwork and bathed in a kind of narcosis of ambient light.
Nitrox and heliox, Gideon knew, were air mixtures intended for use at great depth or during extended dives in order to alleviate the various problems, including the bends, oxygen toxicity, and nitrogen narcosis, that came as the result of gases being compressed—or decompressed—in the human body.