A state of partial narcosis or stupor without total loss of consciousness, in particular a state induced by an injection of morphine and scopolamine, formerly popular for use during childbirth.
〔医〕（尤指过去常在分娩时注射吗啡，东莨菪碱后所产生的）朦胧麻醉，半麻醉
Example sentencesExamples
Poetry is often thought to be a painless twilight sleep out of which beauty is accidentally born.
As a pioneer of twilight sleep in childbirth in New Zealand she even trialled the drug on herself when she subsequently had her four children, Peter, Ross, Graham and Alison.
And you will hear a lot of experts suggest, Larry, that it puts you in a twilight sleep, where you kind of know what's going on.
Being alive is a very intense experience, we all shy away from it preferring an ambulatory twilight sleep.
It is Christmas eve and our patient lays on the table in twilight sleep.
Definition of twilight sleep in US English:
twilight sleep
nounˈtwīˌlīt slēp
Medicine
A state of partial narcosis or stupor without total loss of consciousness, in particular a state induced by an injection of morphine and scopolamine, formerly popular for use during childbirth.
〔医〕（尤指过去常在分娩时注射吗啡，东莨菪碱后所产生的）朦胧麻醉，半麻醉
Example sentencesExamples
As a pioneer of twilight sleep in childbirth in New Zealand she even trialled the drug on herself when she subsequently had her four children, Peter, Ross, Graham and Alison.
Being alive is a very intense experience, we all shy away from it preferring an ambulatory twilight sleep.
And you will hear a lot of experts suggest, Larry, that it puts you in a twilight sleep, where you kind of know what's going on.
It is Christmas eve and our patient lays on the table in twilight sleep.
Poetry is often thought to be a painless twilight sleep out of which beauty is accidentally born.