Narcosis: alternatives and connections

absence of the sense of pain without loss of consciousness

Any medicine which allays pain, as an opiate or narcotic; anything that soothes disturbed feelings.

Want of feeling; privation of passion, emotion, or excitement; dispassion; -- applied either to the body or the mind. As applied to th…

Partial privation or suspension of breath; suffocation.

A genus of plants; also, the most important species (Arnica montana), native of the mountains of Europe, used in medicine as a narcoti…

An astringent and narcotic drug made from the dried leaves and seed capsules of wild hemp (Cannabis Indica), and chewed or smoked in t…

The seat of consciousness; the repository of thought and self-consciousness, or of secrets; the seat of the affections and passions; t…

A plant of the Mint family and genus Lycopus; esp. L. Virginicus, which has mild narcotic and astringent properties, and is sometimes…

A poisonous resin extracted from hemp (Cannabis sativa, variety Indica). The narcotic effects of hasheesh are due to this resin.

An alkaloidal principle obtained from the celandine, and named from the red color of its salts. It is a colorless crystalline substanc…

A species of brome grass (Bromus secalinus) which is a troublesome weed in wheat fields, and is often erroneously regarded as degenera…

A powerfully narcotic and intoxicating gum resin which exudes from the flower heads, seeds, etc., of Indian hemp.

The fruit or berry of the Anamirta Cocculus, a climbing plant of the East Indies. It is a poisonous narcotic and stimulant.

That which constitutes, or is regarded as, an equivalent; that which makes good the lack or variation of something else; that which co…

A picking of heart; poignant grief proceeding from a sense of guilt or consciousness of causing pain; the sting of conscience.

Total privation or loss; extinction; cessation; as, the death of memory.

Privation by fraud; defrauding.

The state of being deprived; privation; loss; want; bereavement.