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Webster 1913 Edition
Obtund
Ob-tund′
,Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Obtunded
; p. pr. & vb. n.
Obtunding
.] To reduce the edge, pungency, or violent action of; to dull; to blunt; to deaden; to quell;
as, to
. obtund
the acrimony of the gall[Archaic]
Harvey.
They . . . have filled all our law books with the
obtunding
story of their suits and trials. Milton.
Webster 1828 Edition
Obtund
OBTUND'
,Verb.
T.
To dull; to blunt; to quell; to deaden; to reduce the edge, pungency or violent action of any thing; as, to obtund the acrimony of the gall.
Definition 2024
obtund
obtund
English
Verb
obtund (third-person singular simple present obtunds, present participle obtunding, simple past and past participle obtunded)
- (transitive, chiefly medicine) To reduce the edge or effects of; to mitigate; to dull.
- 1900, Martha M. Allen, Alcohol, a Dangerous and Unnecessary Medicine, p. 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, ISBN 0071469133, p. 103:
- Small doses of opioids are also useful in obtunding airway reflexes […]
- 1900, Martha M. Allen, Alcohol, a Dangerous and Unnecessary Medicine, p. 319:
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to dull
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