Crossword-Solution: NARCOSIS
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Narcosis | n. | Privation of sense or consciousness, due to a narcotic. |
We have 12 clues for the answer “NARCOSIS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| A state of unconsciousness produced by drugs | 1 answer |
| Deep stupor | 1 answer |
| EFFECTS of narcotics | 1 answer |
| Nitrogen __ (rapture of the deep) | 1 answer |
| Stupor condition | 1 answer |
| Unconsciousness induced by drugs | 1 answer |
| operation of narcotics | 1 answer |
| TWILIGHT sleep | 2 answers |
| STATE of insensibility | 3 answers |
| SLEEPLIKE state | 6 answers |
| Unconscious state | 10 answers |
| Stupor | 76 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TEERA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with NARCOSIS (5)
Deep narcosis and anesthesia were induced, and two hours after awakening his breath smelled strongly of iodoform.
According to Lewin, Brochin reported a case in which the idiosyncrasy to morphin was so great that 1/25 of a grain of the drug administered hypodermically caused irregularity of the respiration, suspension of the heart-beat, and profound narcosis.
The teeth were placed in a tepid normal saline solution, and the child chloroformed, narcosis being induced in sleep; the gums were cleaned antiseptically, and 3 1/2 hours afterward the child had the teeth firmly in place.
ANESTHESIA IN HEART DISEASE While no physician likes to give an anesthetic to a patient who has valvular disease of the heart, and no surgeon cares to operate on such a patient unless operation is absolutely necessary, still in valvular disease with good compensation the prognosis of either ether or chloroform narcosis is good.
Generally, however, the better method is perhaps to administer first chloroform to the point of producing sleep and then to change to ether, the first mild chloroform narcosis preventing the ether from causing acute stimulation, and ether being better for the operation, as it is more of a stimulant.
Quotes with NARCOSIS (2)
It's not Americans I find annoying; it's Americanism: a social disease of the postindustrial world that must inevitably infect each of the mercantile nations in turn, and is called 'American' only because your nation is the most advanced case of the malady, much as one speaks of Spanish flu, or Japanese Type-B encephalitis. It's symptoms are a loss of work ethic, a shrinking of inner resources, and a constant need for external stimulation, followed by spiritual decay and mora…
In a very real way, attention is a drug. Like dope, attention makes people feel good by delivering a ‘’hit’’ of certain neurotransmitters (chemicals that transmit, or block the transmission of electrochemical currents) in the brain. Like anything that does this (viz., sex, risk-taking, power), in excessive amounts it’s addictive. And, simply because it works, nothing is as addictive as a pain killer. Hence Narcissus is well-named from the Greek word for narcosis. Attention is his pain killer.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Crossroads, NYT, USA TODAY.
Used 6 times in crossword archives (1992–2005).