Usually means: Numbness caused by prolonged pressure.
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  3. Obdormition, obdormition: Dictionary.com
  4. Obdormition: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  5. Obdormition: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  6. obdormition: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  7. obdormition: Grandiloquent Dictionary
  8. Obdormition: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  9. obdormition: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  10. obdormition: FreeDictionary.org
  11. obdormition: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  12. Obdormition: TheFreeDictionary.com

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Definitions from Wiktionary (obdormition)

noun:  The sensation of numbness that occurs in a limb when it "falls asleep" due to pressure on a nerve.
noun:  (obsolete) Falling asleep; the condition of being asleep.

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