sleeplike

The position was almost sleeplike, but the eyes were open.

Maureen waited for her voice to take the long journey through the layers of his sleeplike state.

One well-known and well-studied sleeplike state is called nyctinasty, or night movement.

This is a nice way to sleeplike spoons.

There was the ascent, the quiet, sleeplike ascent into space.

A few wisps of hair fell across the dead soldier's face, now frozen in a sleeplike serenity.

It usually refers to a sleeplike state.

She was so thoroughly spent that often, while still talking, she would slip into a sleeplike unconsciousness.

During this same time period — the last 20 percent of embryonic life — sleeplike brain patterns also emerge, the researchers said.

He was then able to see clearly, and for the first time he looked down at his best friend and saw him in a sleeplike state.

As if in a sleeplike state, an anaesthetized patient does not have the ability to appreciate auditory, visual, somatic and olfactory sensations.

The onset of sleep may be mediated by a section of the hypothalamus, since damage to parts of it induces a sleeplike state in animals.

The strange, sleeplike sensation of death clung to them, trying to overpower their tired minds, silently urging their exhausted bodies to accept the welcome rest that waited.

Instantly alert, she still feigned sleep, giving what she hoped was a natural-sounding sigh and making a jerky, sleeplike turnover to lie on one side, facing the bed's edge.

Jonnatt and Plum (1972) coined the term persistent vegetative state (PVS) to describe patients who never regain recognizable mental function but recover from a sleeplike coma.

"It is very likely that human fetuses also develop similar, integrated brain functions, including sleeplike states and the ability for "waking-like" brain activity before birth, although we can't say exactly when this would start," Balaban said.

Ahh, but I knew the childs blank face; I knew her sleeplike walk, her slow indifference to what she saw as the ashes were dumped out and the horses rode through them to scatter them.

New 3-D images reveal for the first time what happens inside the brain when a person loses consciousness, suggesting the mysterious sleeplike state occurs as electrical activity deep in the brain dims and connections between certain neurons suddenly break down.

A. Plants do not sleep in the sense of daily passing into a state of reduced consciousness, but many species exhibit sleeplike states, like the dormancy of winter or the overnight shutdown of photosynthesis in the absence of sunlight.