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| anesthetist |
a person, usu. a doctor or nurse, trained to administer gas or drugs that cause lack of sensation or loss of consciousness. |
| anima |
the principle of life; inner self; consciousness. |
| animism |
the belief that the universe and all of its material objects, beings, and phenomena possess a spirit or consciousness. [1/3 definitions] |
| awake |
to bring to a keen consciousness of something. [2/6 definitions] |
| behaviorism |
in psychology, the doctrine that observable behavior, rather than mental events or consciousness, gives the only valid evidence for study, and that environmental influences predominate in human psychological development. |
| blackout |
loss of consciousness. [1/4 definitions] |
| black out |
to lose consciousness; faint. |
| bring to |
to cause (someone) to regain consciousness; revive. |
| catalepsy |
a condition, often associated with epilepsy and schizophrenia, in which the body becomes numb and the limbs rigid, and the victim loses consciousness or fails to respond to external stimuli. |
| catharsis |
in psychotherapy, the bringing of repressed thoughts and feelings to consciousness in order to release emotional tension, or the release itself. [1/3 definitions] |
| come around |
to regain consciousness; revive. [1/3 definitions] |
| come round |
to regain consciousness; revive. [1/2 definitions] |
| come to |
to regain consciousness. |
| come to life |
to regain consciousness. [1/3 definitions] |
| dissociation |
in a human being, the abnormal separation of a group of mental activities from ordinary consciousness, as in one afflicted with amnesia or multiple personalities. [1/2 definitions] |
| dredge1 |
to bring hidden things or ideas to the surface or into consciousness. [1/7 definitions] |
| embarrassed |
experiencing, expressing, or marked by feelings of shame, painful self-consciousness, or unease. [1/2 definitions] |
| embarrassing |
causing or accompanied by feelings of shame, painful self-consciousness, or unease. |
| faint |
exhausted, dizzy, or on the brink of losing consciousness. [3/5 definitions] |
| feeling |
a general consciousness, perception, or sensation more or less independent of intellectual or physical activity. [1/10 definitions] |
| grand mal |
a kind of epilepsy characterized by convulsions and loss of consciousness. (Cf. petit mal). |
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