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narcosis
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
Narcosis may refer to: In science : Unconsciousness induced by a narcotic drug or through anesthesia Nitrogen narcosis , an effect of diving deep with nitrogen Hydrogen narcosis , an effect of diving deep with hydrogen Carbon dioxide narcosis , carbon dioxide ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1690s, "state of unconsciousness caused by a narcotic," Modern Latin, from Greek narkosis , from narkoun "to benumb" (see narcotic (n.)).
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context pathology English) unconsciousness caused by a drug, anaesthetic or other chemical substance.
Usage examples of narcosis.
They thought nothing of whipping out a sledgehammer and beating a porthole from the side of a ship, even as their heavy breath hastened nitrogen narcosis, the potentially deadly buildup of that otherwise benign gas in their brains.
Men sometimes got disoriented or ran out of air or lost their minds from narcosis and died on the Doria.
As he descends farther, the effects of narcosis become more pronounced.
Nearly all the myriad other dangers lying in wait for the deep-wreck diver involve narcosis or decompression sickness.
Both narcosis and decompression sickness are conditions born of pressure.
Some compare the effects of narcosis to alcohol intoxication, others to the twilight of a waking anesthetic, still others to the fog of ether or laughing gas.
Below 200 feet, narcosis can supercharge the normal processing of fear, joy, sorrow, excitement, and disappointment.
He favors ten-dollar knives over the hundred-dollar versions because when he loses the cheaper ones, he does not feel obligated, under the pressure of narcosis, to risk his life searching the bottom to res cue them.
His narcosis built, the kind that blocks good ideas, such as changing knife hands.
With narcosis raging, his dry suit constricting tighter, his body sinking farther, he breathed dry what he believed to be his second primary tank.
His remaining partner offered Drozd his backup regulator, but Drozd, knife still in hand, slashed wildly at the man, his mind spraying in a million directions, his narcosis pummeling.
His second partner, also ravaged by narcosis and the terribleness of the moment, was now in danger of panicking himself.
At the moment he becomes lost or blinded or tangled or trapped, that instant when millions of years of evolution demand fight or flight and narcosis carves order from his brain, he dials down his fear and contracts into the moment until his breathing slows and his narcosis lightens and his reason returns.
He remembers, even under narcosis, that perhaps three-quarters of all divers who have perished on the Andrea Doria died with a bag full of prizes.
In this weightless transition through worlds, free from narcosis and the storm of dangers at depth, the diver may finally allow himself to become a sightseer on his own adventure.