| somnambulance | <psychiatry, neurology> Sleepwalking, rising out of bed and walking about during an apparent state of sleep, usually occurring in the first third of the night and lasting a few minutes to a half hour. Origin: L. Somnus = sleep, ambulare = to walk (18 Nov 1997) |
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| somnambulic epilepsy | Postictal automatism in which the patient walks or runs about exhibiting natural behaviour of which he or she has no subsequent remembrance. (05 Mar 2000) |
| somnambulism | <psychiatry, neurology> Sleepwalking, rising out of bed and walking about during an apparent state of sleep, usually occurring in the first third of the night and lasting a few minutes to a half hour. Origin: L. Somnus = sleep, ambulare = to walk (18 Nov 1997) |
| somnambulist | One who is subject to somnambulism. Synonym: sleepwalker. (05 Mar 2000) |
| somnambulistic trance | A state of somnambulism, paralysis, anaesthesia, or catalepsy induced by suggestion in major hypnosis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| somnifacient | Synonym: soporific. Origin: L. Somnus, sleep, + facio, to make (05 Mar 2000) |
| somniferous | Synonym: soporific. Origin: L. Somnus, sleep, + fero, to bring (05 Mar 2000) |
| somnific | 1. Causing or inducing profound sleep. 2. <pharmacology> A drug or other agent which induces sleep. Origin: L. Soporificus (04 Mar 1998) |
| somnifugous | Dispelling or resisting falling asleep. Origin: L. Somnus, sleep, + fugo, to put to flight (05 Mar 2000) |
| somniloquence | Somniloquism 1. Talking or muttering in one's sleep. Synonym: sleeptalking. Synonym: somniloquy. Origin: L. Somnus, sleep, + loquor, to talk (05 Mar 2000) |
| somniloquist | A habitual sleep-talker. (05 Mar 2000) |
| somniloquy | Talking under the influence of hypnotic suggestion. Synonym: sleeptalking, somniloquence, somniloquism. Origin: L. Somnus, sleep, + loquor, to speak (05 Mar 2000) |
| somnipathist | One affected by or under the influence of somnipathy. (05 Mar 2000) |
| somnipathy | 1. Any disorder of sleep. Synonym: hypnotism. Origin: L. Somnus, sleep, + G. Pathos, suffering (05 Mar 2000) |
| somnocinematograph | A device for recording the movements made by sleepers. Origin: L. Somnos, sleep, + G. Kinema, motion, + G. Grapho, to write (05 Mar 2000) |