lucid

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"What occurs sometimes is a person will get up looking and feeling fine and have what we call a lucid period right after the injury, not unlike what was reported in the media for Natasha Richardson," said Dr Felise Zollman, a brain injury expert at the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago.

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  1. adjective Easily understood; intelligible.
  2. adjective Mentally sound; sane or rational.
  3. adjective Translucent or transparent. See Synonyms at clear.

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  • "What occurs sometimes is a person will get up looking and feeling fine and have what we call a lucid period right after the injury, not unlike what was reported in the media for Natasha Richardson," said Dr Felise Zollman, a brain injury expert at the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago. —  ta tvnz national headlines auto group
  • Several days were occupied in examining witnesses in the case; after the examination was closed, while Colonel Taylor was engaged in a very able, lucid, and argumentative speech on the part of the prosecution, some man collected a parcel of the rabble, and came within a few yards of the court-house door, and bawled, in a loud voice, `Part them! —  Diary in America, Series Two
  • It is a lucid, and entertaining exposition of the subject."--_St. —  The Dawn of Reason or, Mental Traits in the Lower Animals
  • Scarce one of the monologues is so packed with significance; yet it is by far the most lucid, the most "simple"--even the rhymes are managed with such consummate art that they are, as Mr. Arthur Symons has said, "scarcely appreciable." —  Browning's Heroines
  • His preaching was richly lucid, and not directed to the most intelligent portion of his auditors. —  History of Rationalism Embracing a Survey of the Present State of Protestant Theology
 

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Etymologies (2)

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  1. Latin lūcidus, from lūcēre, to shine; see leuk- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. = French lucide = Spanish lúcido = Portuguese Italian lucido, from Latin lucidus, light, bright, clear, from lucere, shine: see lucent.
 

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