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Webster 1913 Edition


Somnambulism

Som-nam′bu-lism

,
Noun.
[Cf. F.
somnambulisme
. See
Somnambulation
.]
A condition of the nervous system in which an individual during sleep performs actions appropriate to the waking state; a state of sleep in which some of the senses and voluntary powers are partially awake; noctambulism.