Definition of Sopor

1. Noun. A torpid state resembling deep sleep.


Definition of Sopor

1. n. Profound sleep from which a person can be roused only with difficulty.

Definition of Sopor

1. Noun. an unnaturally deep sleep ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Sopor

1. an abnormally deep sleep [n -S]

Medical Definition of Sopor

1. Profound sleep from which a person can be roused only with difficulty. Origin: L. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sopor

sophrological
sophrologist
sophrologists
sophrology
sophronize
sophrosyne
sophs
sophta
sophtas
sophy
sopite
sopited
sopites
sopiting
sopition
sopor (current term)
soporiferous
soporific
soporifical
soporifically
soporifick
soporifics
soporose
soporous
sopors
sopped
sopper
soppers
soppier
soppiest

Literary usage of Sopor

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Monographic Medicine by William Robie Patten Emerson, Guido Guerrini, William Brown, Wendell Christopher Phillips, John Whitridge Williams, John Appleton Swett, Hans Günther, Mario Mariotti, Hugh Grant Rowell (1916)
"(e) sopor When a patient, left undisturbed, sleeps very soundly, but can be partially ... sopor, so common in the acute infectious processes (eg, typhoid, ..."

2. Shakespeare Studies, and Essay on English Dictionaries by Thomas Spencer Baynes, Lewis Campbell (1896)
"... antiques suos amores recitare solent; ne, si sopor ipsos occupet, vulpes, aut lupus, aut aliqua ejus generis ..."

3. Indika: The Country and the People of India and Ceylon by John Fletcher Hurst (1891)
"It is mentioned in the Book of Esther as one of the one hundred and twenty-seven provinces of the son of sopor, HIMALAYAS IN THE BACKGROUND. ..."

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