| somnambulistic trance | A state of somnambulism, paralysis, anaesthesia, or catalepsy induced by suggestion in major hypnosis. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| death trance | A condition of suspended animation, marked by unconsciousness and barely perceptible respiration and heart action. (05 Mar 2000) |
| induced trance | The artificially induced state of hypnosis or of somnambulistic trance. (05 Mar 2000) |
| trance | 1. A tedious journey. 2. A state in which the soul seems to have passed out of the body into another state of being, or to be rapt into visions; an ecstasy. 3. <neurology> A condition, often simulating death, in which there is a total suspension of the power of voluntary movement, with abolition of all evidences of mental activity and the reduction to a minimum of all the vital functions so that the patient lies still and apparently unconscious of surrounding objects, while the pulsation of the heart and the breathing, although still present, are almost or altogether imperceptible. "He fell down in a trance." (Chaucer) Origin: F. Transe fright, in OF. Also, trance or swoon, fr. Transir to chill, benumb, to be chilled, to shiver, OF. Also, to die, L. Transire to pass over, go over, pass away, cease; trans across, over + ire to go; cf. L. Transitus a passing over. (17 Mar 1998) |
| trance coma | The deep sleep following major hypnosis. Synonym: trance coma. (05 Mar 2000) |
| anaesthetics, dissociative | Intravenous anaesthetics that induce a state of sedation, immobility, amnesia, and marked analgesia. Subjects may experience a strong feeling of dissociation from the environment. The condition produced is similar to neuroleptanalgesia, but is brought about by the administration of a single drug. (12 Dec 1998) |
| dissociative anaesthesia | A form of general anaesthesia, but not necessarily complete unconsciousness, characterised by catalepsy, catatonia, and amnesia, especially that produced by phenylcyclohexylamine compounds, including ketamine. (05 Mar 2000) |
| dissociative disorders | Sudden temporary alterations in the normally integrative functions of consciousness. (12 Dec 1998) |
| dissociative hysteria | An unconscious process sometimes seen in patients with multiple personalities, or in hysteria, in which a group of mental processes is separated from the rest of the thinking processes, resulting in an independent functioning of these processes and a loss of the usual relationships among them. (05 Mar 2000) |
| dissociative reaction | Reaction characterised by such dissociative behaviour as amnesia, fugues, sleepwalking, and dream states. (05 Mar 2000) |
| dissociative recombination | <radiobiology> The combination of an electron with a positive molecular ion, followed by dissociation of the molecule in which the resulting atoms/molecules carry off the excess energy released in the recombination. (09 Oct 1997) |
| affective personality disorder | A disturbance of feelings or mood expressed as a milder form of depression and related emotional features that colour the whole psychic life and for which psychosocial stressors are believed to play the major role. (05 Mar 2000) |
| alcohol amnestic disorder | <psychiatry> A mental disorder with brain damage characterised by amnesia, compensatory confabulation, disturbance of attention, and peripheral neuritis. It is usually associated with alcoholism and dietary deficiencies. (12 Dec 1998) |
| antisocial personality disorder | <psychiatry> An individual who engages in deviant behaviour with lack of remorse. (13 Jan 1998) |
| asthenic personality disorder | A personality type characterised by low energy level, easy fatigability, incapacity for enjoyment, lack of enthusiasm, and oversensitivity to physical and emotional stress. When appearing in marked form it becomes a psychological disorder (asthenic personality disorder), also called dependent personality. Synonym: asthenic personality disorder, dependent personality disorder. (05 Mar 2000) |