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語源

Latin obtundere (“to dull", "deaden", "deafen”), from ob- (see ob-) + tundere. More at obtuse.

発音

• (英国発音) IPA^(key): /əbˈtʌnd/, /ɒbˈtʌnd/
• (米国発音) IPA^(key): /əbˈtʌnd/, /ɑbˈtʌnd/
• 韻: -ʌnd

動詞

obtund (三人称単数 現在形 obtunds, 現在分詞 obtunding, 過去形および過去分詞形 obtunded)

1. (transitive, chiefly medicine) To reduce the edge or effects of; to mitigate; to dull.
   • 1900, Martha M. Allen, Alcohol, a Dangerous and Unnecessary Medicine‎^[1], page 319:

     […] the use of alcoholic decoctions […] which are given as medicines to allay pain, obtund nerve sensibility, to cure the little sufferer of his vital manifestations […]

   • 2008, Jerrold H. Levy, Kenichi A. Tanaka & Eric J. Okun, “Cardial Surgical Pharmacology”, in Cardiac Surgery in the Adult‎^[2], →ISBN, page 103:

     Small doses of opioids are also useful in obtunding airway reflexes […]

同意語

• (dull または mitigate): blunt, deaden

派生語

• obtundity

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