Look up: trance

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   Trance
   A trance is a sleep-like state from which the patient cannot be roused, and which arises spontaneously without gross brain lesion such as cerebral haemorhage, or toxic cause such as opium poisoning.
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   Trance
   A dissociated state of consciousness, generally involving reduced awareness of surroundings and external events.
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   Trance
   A dissociated state of consciousness, generally involving reduced awareness of surroundings and external events.
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   trance
   [n] - a state of mind in which consciousness is fragile and voluntary action is poor or missing
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   Trance
   An altered state with an inward focus of attention on a few stimuli.
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   trance
   a state of mental abstraction from environment Category: Medicine
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   trance
   1. A tedious journey. ... 2. A state in which the soul seems to have passed out of the body into another state of being, or to be rapt into visions; an ecstasy. ... 3. <neurology> A condition, often simulating death, in which there is a total suspension of the power of voluntary movement, with abolition of all evidences of mental activity and t ...
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   trance
   noun a state of mind in which consciousness is fragile and voluntary action is poor or missing; a state resembling deep sleep
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   Trance
   `Trance`, as a class term, is a categoric auspice or rubric, employed to denote a variety of processes, techniques, modalities and states of mind, awareness and consciousness. Trance states may be consciously and intentionally induced, or they may occur involuntarily and unbidden. The term `trance` may be conflated with others such as meditation, play, magic, flow and prayer. It may also be conflated with the earlier generic term, altered state...
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    trance
    (trans) a state of altered consciousness characterized by heightened focal awareness and reduced peripheral awareness; a sleeplike state of reduced consciousness and activity.
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    Trance
    • (n.) A condition, often simulating death, in which there is a total suspension of the power of voluntary movement, with abolition of all evidences of mental activity and the reduction to a minimum of all the vital functions so that the patient lies still and apparently unconscious of surrounding objects, while the pulsation of the heart and ...
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    trance
    (from the article `African religions`) Possession trance is the most dramatic and intimate contact that occurs between devotee and divinity. In most cases possession is actively sought, ... ...states. These are achieved idiopathically (i.e., arising spontaneously) or induced by drugs or by autokinetic (self-energized) techniques, such a...
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