It induces sedation, hypothermia, ptosis, and (in higher doses) catalepsy; it inhibits spontaneous motor activity, conditioned avoidance response, amphetamine toxicity and stereotypy.
I kept him ten minutes in this state of catalepsy.
The characteristic features of dissociative anesthesia were described as catalepsy, amnesia and analgesia.
All that is required are a few precise injections to put the leviathan in a permanent catalepsy.
The band's name is a variation of the word catalepsy, a disorder involving catatonic schizophrenia.
Notably, its effects on locomotion are biphasic, with low doses producing inhibition and catalepsy and high doses resulting in enhancement of activity.
He has avoided reality through his catalepsy but also through his fantasies, visions, and obsession with death.
One of his claims to fame was the account of his resurrection of a young lady (who probably was just a victim of catalepsy).
