There may also be the challenge of ensuring adequate nutrition if the patient isdrowsy.
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The melancholic is constantly agitated (inquietus), roams around day and night, and is usuallydrowsy.
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It is known that patients with delirium, whose level of arousal characteristically fluctuates, may bedrowsyby day while alert and agitated at night.
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She wasdrowsyand had peripheral cyanosis, a grade 3/6 pulmonary ejection murmur and clubbing.
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Following 1-7 days of a febrile prodrome with headache, weakness, and gastrointestinal symptoms, patients becomedrowsy, confused and disoriented.
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Does dream fakery get better if the subject isdrowsywhen asked to generate a fake dream?
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Symptoms differed from one case to the next with some sufferers becoming hyper-excited and laughing, dancing, singing for a long period of time, while others becamedrowsy.
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Older people using stairs under conditions of poor illumination, perhaps whendrowsy, seems undesirable, although further research is needed to confirm how much of a risk this really is.
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Upon admission, she wasdrowsy.
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He wasdrowsyand not completely responsive.
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Is it not the case that most of us who drive a lot feeldrowsyfrom time to time?
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First, we do not have enough motorway service areas to provide the ability to rest so that drivers are notdrowsyand overstrained.
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Most medicines which make onedrowsyrequire a medical prescription.
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Many people imagine that all urban districts are small,drowsy, rural places built round a parish pump.
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Engine-men, signalmen, shunters, guards, and fogmen like tea, on account of its stimulating qualities, to prevent them from gettingdrowsyat their work.
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