| 单词 | suspended animation |
| 释义 | > as lemmassuspended animation 3. Temporarily stopped, intermitted: chiefly in suspended animation, a state of temporary insensibility, esp. that due to asphyxia. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > ceasing > temporary cessation of activity or operation > [adjective] intermitted1557 pausing1572 suspensivea1623 cessant1648 suspending1656 interpolateda1676 suspended1795 abeyant1822 the world > physical sensation > physical sensibility > physical insensibility > unconsciousness > [noun] > suspension of consciousness ligation1598 little death1598 ligature1728 suspended animation1795 petite mort1891 1795 Brit. Critic VI. 533 The author having examined the causes of suspended animation in animals that are hanged, drowned, suffocated, or killed by noxious vapours, concludes that it is occasioned solely by the exclusion of vital air from the lungs. 1817 P. B. Shelley Laon & Cythna xi. xi. 242 Why watched those myriads with suspended breath Sleepless a second night? 1817 J. M. Good Physiol. Syst. Nosol. 368 Total suspension of all the mental and corporeal functions..Asphyxy. Suspended animation. 1825 W. Scott Betrothed xiv, in Tales Crusaders I. 274 In suggesting and applying the usual modes for recalling the suspended sense. 1827 W. Scott Surgeon's Daughter viii An old servant waited with the means of restoring suspended animation. 1836 I. Taylor Physical Theory of Another Life xvii. 257 A condition of suspended powers. < as lemmas |
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