| 单词 | twilight sleep |
| 释义 | > as lemmastwilight sleep twilight sleep n. [translating German dämmerschlaf (C. J. Gauss, c1905)] a state of amnesia and partial analgesia induced by the administration of morphine and scopolamine (hyoscine), esp. to lessen the pains of childbirth. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > anaesthetization, pain-killing, etc. > [noun] > analgesia > methods used in childbirth twilight sleep1912 psychoprophylaxy1958 psychoprophylaxis1960 1912 F. Hewitt Anæsthetics & Admin. (ed. 4) ix. 278 As a matter of actual experience in hospital practice by no means all patients achieve the state of dammerschlaf, or ‘twilight sleep’, which foreign authors advocate. 1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. viii. [Lestrygonians] 154 Twilightsleep idea: queen Victoria was given that. 1971 D. D. Moir Pain Relief in Labour i. 5 Twilight sleep is seldom used today because it causes respiratory depression in the new-born and tends to cause delirium and restlessness in the mother. 1981 J. Gardner Licence Renewed xiv. 161 A nice mix—Scopolamine with morphine: twilight sleep, like having a baby. < as lemmas |
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