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obtunded

[ ob-tuhn-did ]

adjective

  1. Medicine/Medical. characterized by diminished responsiveness to stimuli, often due to a state of reduced consciousness:

    Transporting trauma patients to the hospital in a supine position may not be the safest approach in obtunded patients with unprotected airways.



verb

  1. the simple past tense and past participle of obtund ( def ).
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Example Sentences

In men of genius the moral sense is sometimes obtunded, if not altogether absent.

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.

In paralysis of sensation, the reflexes of coughing, vomiturition and vomiting are obtunded.

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.

Madeira did not seem to be unconscious, but his senses were obtunded, and it was some minutes before he could sit up.

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