narcosis
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“The freeway experience ... is the only secular communion Los Angeles has.… Actual participation requires total surrender, a concentration so intense as to seem a kind of narcosis, a rapture-of-the-freeway.”
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 11, 2023
Using a helium-oxygen mixture avoids the disoriented mental state known as nitrogen narcosis, the so-called rapture of the deep.
From Textbooks • Feb. 14, 2019
Methylene chloride can kill either through direct narcosis or through metabolization into carbon monoxide, which binds to hemoglobin in the blood and inhibits oxygen from moving around the body.
From Washington Post • May 10, 2018
To evade this induced narcosis and reclaim lived experience, Wu argues, we must wean ourselves off the digital.
From Nature • Oct. 11, 2016
"I observed all the characteristic symptoms of morphine narcosis prior to her death, and the nature of the death itself was consistent with my theory."
From A Modern Wizard by Ottolengui, Rodrigues
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
