stupour

Anglais

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stupour

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stupour
\ˈstjuːpə(ɹ)\
stupours
\ˈstjuːpə(ɹ)z\
  1. (Archaïsme) Variante orthographique de stupor.
    • Individuals exposed to it become vertiginous, and are almost in a state of stupour: their animal heat is augmented one or two degrees, and the pulse in an adult gives one hundred and fifteen to one hundred and twenty-four beats in a minute; and in a child of ten years of age gives one hundred and sixty.  (John Bell, M.D, A Treatise on Baths; Including Cold, Sea, Warm, Hot, Vapour, Gas, and Mud Baths; also, on Hydropathy and Pulmonary Inhalation, 1859)lire en ligne.
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