单词 | agrypnia |
释义 | agrypnian. Medicine. The state of wakefulness or sleeplessness; insomnia, (in later use) esp. when severe and due to a disorder of or injury to the brain; an instance of this. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > stupor or coma > [noun] > morbid sleeplessness watchfulness1596 insomnia1623 agrypnia1665 coma vigil1708 1665 G. Thomson Loimologia 6 The Symptoms and Products common to both [sc. the present Pest and Scurvie], as..Cardialgie, Nauseousness, Vomiting, extream pain in the Head, Vertigo, Swimming, Agrypnie or want of Sleep. 1684 tr. T. Bonet Guide Pract. Physician iii. 67/2 Whether the Circulation of the bloud could doe as much in curing an Ophthalmia, as it does in curing an Agrypnia [Gk. ἀγρυπνία] (or Want of Sleep). 1788 W. Rowley Treat. Female Dis. 472 The coma vigil, pervigilium, or agrypnia, are diseases contrary to the preceding. 1835 J. Forbes et al. Cycl. Pract. Med. IV. 452/2 Agrypnia often occurs as one of the most troublesome symptom of anomalous gout and anomalous hysteria. 1889 London Med. Recorder 20 May 177/2 If pain of non-neuralgic origin or distressing cough is the cause of agrypnia, sulphonal is useless. 1908 Cleveland Med. & Surg. Reporter 16 242 There is a special type of agrypnia caused by a state of heightened irritability. 1995 Adv. Neuroimmunol. 5 17/1 In the first case recorded, in which the patient displayed total agrypnia, no grossly detectable circadian oscillations of the investigated variables were evident. 2007 A. Culebras Sleep Disorders & Neurol. Dis. (ed. 2) iv. 46 An historical example of agrypnia was described by von Economo in cases of epidemic encephalitis in which anatomical lesions prevailed in the anterior hypothalamus and basal forebrain. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1665 |
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