NARCOLEPSY
\nˈɑːkə͡ʊlˌɛpsi], \nˈɑːkəʊlˌɛpsi], \n_ˈɑː_k_əʊ_l_ˌɛ_p_s_i]\
Definitions of NARCOLEPSY
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - Medical Dictionary Database
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1908 - Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary of the English Language
- 1900 - A dictionary of medicine and the allied sciences
- 1919 - The concise Oxford dictionary of current English
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
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a sleep disorder characterized by sudden and uncontrollable episodes of deep sleep; "he believes that narcolepsy is attributable to an inability to suppress REM sleep during waking"
By Princeton University
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a sleep disorder characterized by sudden and uncontrollable episodes of deep sleep; "he believes that narcolepsy is attributable to an inability to suppress REM sleep during waking"
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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A condition characterized by recurrent episodes of daytime somnolence and lapses in consciousness (microsomnias) that may be associated with automatic behaviors and AMNESIA. CATAPLEXY; SLEEP PARALYSIS, and hypnagogic HALLUCINATIONS frequently accompany narcolepsy. The pathophysiology of this disorder includes sleep-onset rapid eye movement (REM) sleep, which normally follows stage III or IV sleep. (From Neurology 1998 Feb;50 (2 Suppl 1):S2-S7)
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
By William R. Warner
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nar'k[=o]-lep-si, n. a nervous disorder marked by frequent short attacks of irresistible drowsiness.
By Thomas Davidson
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[Greek] A name applied to several conditions marked by sleepiness, especially to a state characterized by a recurrent irresistible inclination to fall asleep; also to cases of petit mal in which the attack is ushered in by a feeling of somnolence.
By Alexander Duane
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Disease with fits of somnolence. [Greek]
By Sir Augustus Henry
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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