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| Domain | Definition |
Health | The state of being deprived of sleep under experimental conditions, due to life events, or from a wide variety of pathophysiologic causes such as medication effect, chronic illness, psychiatric illness, or sleep disorder. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Lack of sleep may result in irritability, blurred vision, slurred speech, memory lapses, overall confusion, nausea and eventually death.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Sleep deprivation."
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Health | Many studies make it clear that sleep deprivation is dangerous. (references) | |
If sleep deprivation continues, hallucinations and mood swings may develop. (references) | ||
Sleep deprivation also triggers seizures in people with some types of epilepsy. (references) | ||
Human Rights | Tunisia | The forms of torture included electric shock; submersion of the head in water; beatings with hands, sticks, and police batons; cigarette burns, and food and sleep deprivation. (references) |
Saudi Arabia | Ministry of Interior officials are responsible for most incidents of abuse of prisoners, including beatings, whippings, sleep deprivation, and at least three cases of drugging of foreign prisoners. (references) | |
Jordan | The most frequently alleged methods of torture include sleep deprivation, beatings on the soles of the feet, prolonged suspension with ropes in contorted positions, and extended solitary confinement. (references) | |
Political Economy | Israel and the occupied territories | The Commission's work was expected to continue into 2002. A landmark decision by the High Court of Justice in September 1999 prohibited the use of a variety of other abusive practices, including violent shaking, painful shackling in contorted positions, sleep deprivation for extended periods of time, and prolonged exposure to extreme temperatures; however, during the year, human rights organizations, including B'tselem, Human Rights Watch (HRW), and the Public Committee Against Torture in Israel (PCATI), and the Mandela Institute for Political Prisoners reported that there was an increase in the number of allegations that security forces tortured detainees, including using methods prohibited in the High Court decision. (references) |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
sleep deprivation | 525 |
effects of sleep deprivation | 41 |
sleep deprivation symptom | 29 |
sleep deprivation study | 7 |
teen sleep deprivation | 5 |
cause of sleep deprivation | 5 |
sleep deprivation statistics | 4 |
child sleep deprivation | 3 |
rem sleep deprivation | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "SLEEP DEPRIVATION"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
German | schlafentzug. (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | eepslay eprivationday | ||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-e-e-i-i-l-n-o-p-p-r-s-t-v" | |
-3 letters: lepidopterans, pentaploidies, pretelevision. | |
-4 letters: depilatories, deprivations, lepidopteran, presidential, providential, tradespeople, vespertilian. | |
-5 letters: delineative, delineators, depilations, depravities, deprivation, derivations, desperation, disrelation, inoperative, interlapped, interleaved, interleaves, interpleads, lepidoptera, livetrapped, overplanted, overslipped, overstepped, pentaploids, peripeteias, personative, prepositive, previsional, previsioned, reappointed, residential, revelations, revitalised, silverpoint. | |
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| 1. Usage: Commercial 2. Quotations: Non-fiction 3. Expressions: Internet 4. Translations: Modern | 5. Anagrams 6. Bibliography |
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