somnolence
IPA: sˈɑmnʌɫʌns
noun
- A state of drowsiness or sleepiness.
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Examples of "somnolence" in Sentences
- Somnolence interrupts her from working.
- He is not seized by somnolence or sleep.
- In the end, though, Sseth too sank into somnolence.
- It causes somnolence, anorexia, and dyspnea in humans.
- Patients present with snoring and excessive daytime somnolence.
- This stage is sometimes referred to as somnolence or drowsy sleep.
- Caffeine is listed as both a contraindication and an indication for somnolence.
- Thus, they could not understand his excessive somnolence in the forenoon, nor his excessive activity at night.
- Karen occasionally talked in her sleep, muttering and mumbling, no words that he could decipher, the language of somnolence.
- But what happens in the body to cause this post-feast dip—known as postprandial somnolence in the medical community—isn't clear.
- Mr. Ventnor sat in an armchair on the opposite side of the fire; and, finding a kind of somnolence creeping over him, pinched himself.
- Though the movie is endeavoring to rouse the youth of a nation out of some kind of somnolence, it still adheres to a retrograde movie morality out of 30s-era Hollywood.
- She underwent what was fashionably known in those days as a cure de sommeil, a treatment that involved being pumped so full of tranquilizers she was “in a constant state of somnolence.”
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