twilight sleep

This consensus would eventually change as the negative side effects of twilight sleep came to light.

It was formerly used in a painkiller called "twilight sleep" in childbirth.

Strange, who won back-to-back Opens in 1988 and 1989, then went into a protracted twilight sleep from which he only recently has awakened.

She was drifting into that twilight sleep already, and her voice was thick and slow.

They mixed it with morphine and called it twilight sleep.

Yet physicians noted that women in twilight sleep answered questions accurately and often volunteered exceedingly candid remarks.

Pitt knew he had crossed over the threshold from physical sensibility to the inertness of twilight sleep.

The body processes continue; it's a kind of twilight sleep.

He was in a gentle twilight sleep, with his condition listed as satisfactory.

I'll put you in a twilight sleep, you babbling cretin.