hypno-, hypn- +

The process of inducing or entering sleep or a hypnotic state.

1. Producing sleep.
2. Productive of hypnosis or sleep, as a spot that, upon being touched by a subject, puts him/her into a hypnotic state.

Arising from a state of hypnosis, such as unconscious material uncovered during the course of hypnoanalysis.

Resembling a state of hypnosis or sleep.

A reference to a condition between sleep and waking; resembling sleep.

The induction of hypnosis.

A chronic ailment that consists of recurrent attacks of drowsiness and sleep during daytime; narcolepsy.

The patient is unable to control these spells of sleep but is easily awakened. These attacks may be distinguished from ordinary drowsiness following a meal by the frequency of the occurrence of such attacks, their irresistibility, and their happening in unusual circumstances; such as, while eating, standing, or conversing.

A specialist in the phenomena of sleep and/or hypnosis.

The science or study of or that part of physiological science that deals with the phenomena of sleep and hypnosis.

A mania or excessive desire for sleeping.

Difficulty in going to sleep; insomnia.

A psychiatric interview combining hypnosis with drug-induced sedation or narcosis.

A combination of hypnosis and narcosis.

Any sleeping disorder caused by an illness.

Sleep-learning, Instruction in a subject; such as, a foreign language, during sleep, usually with the use of recordings and a pillow-speaker.