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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Relating to or characterized by confusion.
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- adj. medicine Characterized by confusion.
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“The most common type of parasomnia is the "disorder of arousal," which includes confusional arousals, sleepwalking (somnambulism), and sleep terrors.”
“And yet, with his oddball, confusional comic style, he is an important wake-up call.”
The Huffington Post: Pavel Somov, Ph.D.: Pattern Interruption Hall of Fame: Zach Galifianakis
“• Fear of an acute confusional state or other cognitive disorder following attempts to understand one's EOBs explanation of benefits.”
“Nightmares usually occur toward the end of the night, when REM sleep is most intense; in contrast, confusional events happen during the first few hours after a child has fallen asleep, when non-REM sleep is deepest.”
“Chapter 13 deals with confusional events in detail.”
“The differences between nightmares and sleep terrors and other intense confusional events are discussed here and summarized in Figure 16.”
“Sleep terrors, on the other hand, like other confusional events, occur during a partial arousal from the deepest phase of nondreaming sleep.”
“A child in the midst of a confusional event, on the other hand, is not fully awake.”
“Actually, all the characteristics of confusional events can be more easily explained if they are viewed as primarily physiological events that just produce the physical appearance of agitation, and sometimes even of terror, without any preceding or accompanying scary thoughts.”
“It is not known how many children have extended thrashing spells, sleepwalking, and full sleep terrors, but at least 15 percent of all children sleepwalk at least once, and extended confusional arousals probably occur in far more children than that.”
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