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Twilight Sleep

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Noun

1. twilight sleep

a state of general anesthesia in which the person retains a slight degree of consciousness; can be induced by injection of scopolamine or morphine

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Twilight Sleep

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noun
medicine
a state of partial anaesthesia in which the patient retains a slight degree of consciousness

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Twilight Sleep

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a state of partial anesthesia induced by the injection of morphine and scopolamine, formerly used to lessen the pains of childbirth

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Twilight Sleep

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n.
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.

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