death trance


death trance

a condition of suspended animation, marked by unconsciousness and barely perceptible respiration and heart action.

trance

(trăns) [L. transitus, a passing over] A sleeplike state, as in deep hypnosis, in which a person has limited awareness of his surroundings.

death trance

A trance simulating death.

induced trance

A trance caused by some external event such as hypnosis.