narcosis

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The child lay in quiet narcosis, occasionally throwing itself about as if in pain.

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  1. noun A condition of deep stupor or unconsciousness produced by a drug or other chemical substance.

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  • And so this one we decided to give the name Centropyge narcosis to. —  Richard Pyle dives the reef's Twilight Zone
  • The more technical term is nitrogen narcosis, what they call the rapture of the deep, staying down too deep for too long. —  The African Quest
  • Nitrogen narcosis, shadows, imagination—at a hundred and seventy-five feet who knew what they thought they saw? —  Barr, Nevada - [Anna Pigeon 02] A Superior Death v1.0 HTML
  • CO2 narcosis was used to euthanize adult male mice (22-38 g). —  PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
  • As you breathe greater amounts of compressed air at depth than at the surface, your intake of nitrogen is greater than at the surface, and you can develop nitrogen narcosis. —  TravelPod.com Recent Updates
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  1. New Latin narcōsis, from Greek narkōsis, a numbing, from narkoun, to benumb, from narkē, numbness.

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  1. New Latin, from Greek νάρκωσις, a benumbing, from ναρκοῦν, benumb, render unconscious: see narcotic.
 

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/nɑrˈkoʊsɪs/
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