Usually means: Sedation using morphine and scopolamine.
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General (12 matching dictionaries)
  1. twilight sleep: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  2. twilight sleep: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. twilight sleep: Collins English Dictionary
  4. twilight sleep: Vocabulary.com
  5. twilight sleep: Wiktionary
  6. twilight sleep: Infoplease Dictionary
  7. twilight sleep: Dictionary.com
  8. Twilight sleep: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. twilight sleep: Rhymezone
  10. twilight sleep: FreeDictionary.org
  11. twilight sleep: Mnemonic Dictionary
  12. twilight sleep: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. twilight sleep: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. twilight sleep: Encyclopedia

Medicine (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. twilight sleep: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Sleep, twilight, Twilight sleep: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Probert Encyclopaedia of Medicine (No longer online)
  5. twilight sleep: Medical dictionary
  6. Sleep, twilight, Twilight sleep: Drug Medical Dictionary

(Note: See twilight_sleeps as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (twilight sleep)

noun:  An amnesic condition characterized by insensibility to pain without loss of consciousness, induced by an injection of morphine and scopolamine, especially to relieve the pain of childbirth.

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