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| has gloss | (noun) a state of general anesthesia in which the person retains a slight degree of consciousness; can be induced by injection of scopolamine or morphine twilight sleep |
| has gloss | eng: Twilight sleep (English translation of the idiomatic Dämmerschlaf) is an amnesic condition characterized by insensibility to pain without loss of consciousness, induced by an injection of morphine and scopolamine, especially to relieve the pain of childbirth. This combination induces a semi-narcotic state which produces the experience of childbirth without pain, or without the memory of pain. Developed by Dr. Carl J. Gauss, who began research on the treatment in 1903, it was also sometimes known as the "Freiburg method".<ref name=nyt_invest/> However, Gauss was not the first to suggest the use of the combination of morphine and scopolamine as a surgical anesthesia; in 1899, a Dr. Schneiderlin "recommended the use of scopolamine, combined with morphia, for the production of surgical anaesthesia". |
| lexicalization | eng: twilight sleep |
| subclass of | (noun) a state of total unconsciousness resulting from anesthetic drugs (as for a major surgical operation) general anesthesia, general anaesthesia |
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| has gloss | ita: Dämmerschlaf (in Italiano sonno dellalba, in inglese twilight sleep ) è una parola Tedesca che indica uno stato di amnesia caratterizzata da insensibilità al dolore senza perdita di coscienza, indotta da una iniezione di morfina e scopolamina, usato in particolare per alleviare il dolore del parto. Questa combinazione induce uno stato semi-narcotico che produce lesperienza del parto senza dolore, o senza la memoria del dolore. Il termine Dämmerschlaf è talvolta usato per riferirsi ai moderni sedazione per via endovenosa. |
| lexicalization | ita: Dämmerschlaf |
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| lexicalization | kor: 반마취상태 |
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| similar | e/Twilight sleep |
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