dauerschlaf

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noun

A prolonged sleep therapy.

Scrabble 20

Meanings

noundauerschlaf (uncountable)

alternative dauershlaf

  1. uncountableA prolonged sleep therapy.

    dauerschlaf See SLEEP THERAPY

    2009, Charles Pollak, Michael J. Thorpy, Jan Yager, The Encyclopedia of Sleep and Sleep Disorders, Infobase, →ISBN, page 59
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    REPORTS THE CONTINUOUS POLYGRAPHIC RECORDINGS MADE OF SS UNDERGOING DAUERSCHLAF, A PROLONGED SLEEP THERAPY USED FOR ACUTE PSYCHOSES AND OTHER CONDITIONS.

    1968, Ernest Hartmann, “DAUERSCHLAF: AN EEG STUDY”, in Psychophysiology, volume 4, number 3, pages 388–389

    THIS STUDY reports on continuous 70 to 96 hour polygraphic recordings from patients undergoing dauerschlaf or prolonged sleep therapy.

    1968 Jan, Ernest Hartmann, “Dauerschlaf: A Polygraphic Study”, in Arch Gen Psychiatry, volume 18, number 1, page 99

    We fully used the therapeutic enthusiasms of our day, with dauerschlaf, insulin, pentavalent arsenicals, and Kettering hypertherm.

    1977 Nov, “Requiem or Reveille: Psychiatry's Choice.”, in Bull N Y Acad Med., volume 53, number 9, page 797

    The induction of sleep for therapeutic purposes, so-call sleep cure or Dauerschlaf, has been practiced for many years …

    1987, Nathaniel Kleitman, Sleep and Wakefulness, Univ. of Chicago Press, →ISBN

    In insulin hypoglycemia and barbiturate medication (Dauerschlaf) …

    1999, Douglas Thomas, Physiological Foundations, →ISBN, page 448

Origin

Borrowed from German Dauerschlaf, from Dauer (“duration, length”) + Schlaf (“sleep”).

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