hypnagogic sensations definition
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hypnagogic hyp•na•gog•ic. 1. of or pertaining to the period of drowsiness between wakefulness and sleep: hypnagogic hallucinations. Compare hypnopompic. 2. inducing drowsiness.
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- Hypnagogia is the experience of the transitional state from wakefulness to sleep: the hypnagogic state of consciousness, during the onset of sleep. In opposition, hypnopompia denotes the onset of wakefulness. The related words from the Greek are agōgos leading, inducing, pompe act of sending, and hypnos sleep.
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Hypnagogia The term hypnagogia is used by Dr. Mavromatis to identify the study of the sleep-transitional consciousness states in general, and he employs hypnogogic (toward sleep) or hypnapompic (from sleep) for the purpose of identifying the specific experiences under study.
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Diabetic Emergencies: Understanding the Presentation of Hypoglycemia The signs and symptoms of hypoglycemia can be categorized as being either hyperadrenergic, which is associated with an increase in the sympathetic nervous system activity or circulating epinephrine; or, neuroglucopenic, which is a result of direct brain cell dysfunction from the lack of glucose.
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- 1 Hyposmia is a partial loss of one's ability to smell. 2  Ageusia is the complete loss of one's ability to taste. 3  Hypogeusia is the partial loss of one's ability to taste.  Parosmia is a condition were one's sense of smell is distorted or where one smells certain odors that are not present, i.e. Phantom odors.
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Hypnagogia Hypnagogic hallucinations are often auditory or have an auditory component. Like the visuals, hypnagogic sounds vary in intensity from faint impressions to loud noises, such as crashes and bangs (exploding head syndrome). People may imagine their own name called, crumpling bags, white noise, or a doorbell ringing.
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Paresthesia Paresthesia is an abnormal sensation such as tingling, tickling, pricking, numbness or burning of a person's skin with no apparent physical cause. The manifestation of a paresthesia may be transient or chronic.
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Why do I sometimes get a feeling as if I am falling while I'm asleep or half asleep? Hynagogic jerk is an involuntary twitch which occurs just as a person is beginning to fall asleep, often causing them to awaken suddenly for a moment. Physically, hypnic jerks resemble the jump experienced by a person when startled, often accompanied by a falling sensation.
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causalgia causalgia Caulsalgia syndrome Pain medicine A sensation of persistent severe burning pain of either organic–direct or indirect trauma to a sensory nerve, accompanied by trophic changes–or psychologic origin.
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- Head paresthesia/ tingling. Head paresthesia/ tingling: Introduction. The skin sensation of partial numbness or pins and needles or a type of burning, tingling or creeping sensation of the skin, is known as a paresthesia.
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- For the upcoming film, see The Old Hag Syndrome (film) . Sleep paralysis is a phenomenon in which a person either during falling asleep (Hypnagogia) or awakening (Hypnopompia), temporarily experiences an inability to move, speak, or react.
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hypo- A prefix that means beneath or below, as in hypodermic, below the skin. It also means less than normal, as in hypoglycemia, having a level of sugar in the blood that is less than normal. Translations
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- Date: 19 Jan 98 - 10:54 PM. Don't know much about it except that my mother got Allen Sherman's LP, for my sister & me, My Son The Folk Singer, when it came out (I think) maybe late 50's & that along with Matilda is all I remember about it.
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paresthesia (par'es-thē'zē-ă), Avoid the jargonistic use of the plural of this abstract noun to mean 'episodes or zones of paresthesia'. A spontaneous abnormal usually nonpainful sensation (for example, burning, pricking); may be due to lesions of both the central and peripheral nervous systems.
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"Meaning of ""bradykinesia"" in the English dictionary" Hypokinesia refers to decreased bodily movement. One of the two categories of movement disorders, hypokinesia is characterized by a partial or complete loss of muscle movement due to a disruption in the basal ganglia. Patients with hypokinetic disorders like Parkinson's disease experience muscle rigidity and an inability to produce movement. It is also associated with mental health disorders and prolonged inactivity due to illness, amongst other diseases.
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Definitions &Translations It often presents as pain but may also present as an inappropriate, but not discomforting, sensation. It is caused by lesions of the nervous system, peripheral or central, and it involves sensations, whether spontaneous or evoked, such as burning, wetness, itching, electric shock, and pins and needles. Dysesthesia can include sensations in any bodily tissue, including most often the mouth, scalp, skin, or legs. It is sometimes described as feeling like acid under the skin. Burning dysesthesia might accurately reflect an acidotic state in the synapses and perineural space.
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Taste Disorders 1 Another type of taste disorder is hypogeusia, a reduced ability to taste sweet, sour, bitter, salty, and savory (umami). 2  Dysgeusia is a condition in which a foul, salty, rancid, or metallic taste sensation will persist in the mouth. 3  Ageusia is the inability to detect any tastes, which is rare.
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Burning Tongue and Metallic Taste Glossodynia or burning mouth syndrome (BMS) (also known as Burning tongue and Orodynia) is a condition characterized b... Parageusia is the medical term for a bad taste in the mouth. One common form of parageusia is a metallic taste of food.
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Hypnic jerk A study at the University of Colorado has suggested that a hypnic jerk could be an archaic reflex to the brain's misinterpretation of muscle relaxation with the onset of sleep as a signal that a sleeping primate is falling out of a tree.
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- Scalp dysesthesia: Scalp dysesthesia is a cutaneous condition characterised by pain and burning sensations without objective physical examination findings. Neuropathic pain: Neuropathic pain results from damage or disease affecting the somatosensory system. It may be associated with abnormal sensations called dysesthesia, and pain produced by normally non-painful stimuli (allodynia).
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hyperventilation hyperventilation syndrome a complex of symptoms that accompany hypocapnia caused by hyperventilation, including palpitation, a feeling of shortness of breath or air hunger, lightheadedness or giddiness, profuse perspiration, and tingling sensations in the fingertips, face, or toes.
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Numbness and Tingling Numbness and Tingling Definition. Numbness and tingling are decreased or abnormal sensations caused by altered sensory nerve function. Description. The feeling of having a foot fall asleep is a familiar one. This same combination of numbness and tingling can occur in any region of the body and may be caused by a wide variety of disorders. Sensations such as these, which occur without any associated stimulus, are called paresthesias.
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hypesthesia Hypesthesia definition, an abnormally weak sense of pain, heat, cold, or touch. See more.
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- Tingling or numbness in the extremities, scalp, or face is common in benzodiazepine withdrawal and in anxiety states and may be associated with hyperventilation. It may persist as continuing pins and needles5 or as severe burning pain without demonstrable neurological cause.
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Paresthesia [edit on Wikidata] Paresthesia is an abnormal sensation such as tingling, tickling, pricking, numbness or burning of a person's skin with no apparent physical cause. The manifestation of a paresthesia may be transient or chronic, and may have any of dozens of possible underlying causes. The most familiar kind of paresthesia is the sensation known as pins and needles or of a limb falling asleep. A less well-known and uncommon but important paresthesia is formication, the sensation of bugs crawling underneath th
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Paresthesia [edit on Wikidata] Paresthesia is a sensation of tingling, tickling, pricking, or burning of a person's skin with no apparent physical cause. The manifestation of a paresthesia may be transient or chronic. The most familiar kind of paresthesia is the sensation known as pins and needles or of a limb falling asleep.
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Dysesthesia Cutaneous dysesthesia is characterized by discomfort or pain from touch to the skin by normal stimuli, including clothing. The unpleasantness can range from a mild tingling to blunt, incapacitating pain. Scalp dysesthesia is characterized by pain or burning sensations on or under the surface of the cranial skin.