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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
obtund . - adjective medicine Describing someone who is far from alert or oriented to time and space, and exhibits other signs being confused, a state just short of frank
delirium .
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Examples
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On admission, the child was found to be obtunded with a rectal temperature of 95. 8° F, and irregular pulse fluctuating from 42-84 beats per minute, respirations of 16 per minute, and a blood pressure of 72/40.
Carbamazepine 2010
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She was found in an obtunded state in the bathtub by her husband who determined that she ingested up to 30 mg. of colchicine and about one-fifth of bourbon.
Colchicine Poisoning 2010
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This is vitally important to them because gradually their veins collapse, infect, become obtunded and useless.
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Looking ahead, she added in one of her more baroque phrases that the Chinese “have faith, that, at the writing of peace, America and our gallant Allies will not be obtunded by the mirage of contingent reasons of expediency.”
The Last Empress Hannah Pakula 2009
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While the special senses are in partial action, the sense of pain is obtunded, and in many cases completely annulled, consciousness and general sensibility being preserved.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 275, April 9, 1881 Various
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In paralysis of sensation, the reflexes of coughing, vomiturition and vomiting are obtunded.
Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery Chevalier Jackson 1911
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Madeira did not seem to be unconscious, but his senses were obtunded, and it was some minutes before he could sit up.
Sally of Missouri 1905
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Often at his desk there, his mind became strangely obtunded and he babbled vapidly; his big face pinched up till it seemed lean and grey, and he pitched forward, face down, upon the desk.
Sally of Missouri 1905
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In men of genius the moral sense is sometimes obtunded, if not altogether absent.
Religion and Lust or, The Psychical Correlation of Religious Emotion and Sexual Desire James Weir 1881
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And it is a fact well ascertained, that of persons guilty of violating all the laws which bind men together and of trampling under foot all the ties of social order, by far the majority have, from long habits of drinking ardent spirits, completely obtunded the moral sensibility.
dangertoy commented on the word obtunded
I work in medicine and write poetry. When I first heard this word I wrote this:
I have been obtunded
been trying too hard
making music with misshapen instruments
-a pianjo
-a trumpinet
-a drymbal
disconcerting
what road is there that leads from pain-
none-
what road is there that makes it sufferable-
you-
the sky bleeds heat
from its cool blueness-
a great trick-
like splashing into the ocean
and catching fire-
the fish would laugh a beefy laugh-
you would throw hot love on me
to bring me down
I would gasp hard and fast
to hurry its rescue-
wheeeeeeeee
-charles edward jolliffe
May 11, 2009