twilight sleep
Drugged labor amnesia
Twilight sleep is a state of semi-consciousness induced by drugs, historically a combination of morphine and scopolamine, used especially during childbirth in the early twentieth century.
The method was intended to relieve pain while allowing the patient to remain partially responsive, though it largely fell out of favor due to safety concerns and unpredictable effects.
The term now sometimes describes any drug-induced state between waking and unconsciousness.
- narcosisDrug-induced insensibility
- scopolamineTropane alkaloid for nausea
- hypnosisInduced trance state
- anesthesiaInduced loss of feeling
- sedationDrug-induced calm state
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- sleepnap, doze, slumber, naps, snooze
- childbirthcontractions, labor, pushing, dilation, birth
- old medicinebloodletting, leeches, leech therapy, leeching, cupping
- sedationsedation, sedative, conscious sedation, deep sedation, light sedation
- anesthesiaanesthesiologist, general anesthesia, local anesthesia, sedation, spinal anesthesia
- obstetric historymidwifery, obstetrics, childbirth, midwives, maternal care