twilight sleep

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twilight sleep noun

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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twilight anesthesia yen sleep freiburg method hypnic conscious sedation milk of amnesia subanesthesia hypnotic anesthetic amorphinism somnos hypnaesthesis narcotherapy soporific anesthesia sleeping pill

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