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5th period (Chase)Syringe: __Origin:__"Classical Mythology; a mountain nymph of Arcadia who was transformed, in order to protect her chastity from Pan, into the reed from which Pan then made the panpipe. (wikipedia.com)" __Definition: "__A small device consisting of a glass, metal, or hard rubber tube, narrowed at its outlet, and fitted with either a piston or a rubber bulb for drawing in a quantity of fluid or for ejecting fluid in a stream, for cleaning wounds, injecting fluids into the body, etc." (dictionary.com)" __Usage:__Syringes are used to inject or take out fluids from the body like blood or to inject a drug or shot. (Chase)Hypnosis:  __Definition:__ "inducement of sleep," coined (as an alternative to hypnotism ) from Gk. hypnos "sleep" + -osis "condition." An artificially induced trance state resembling sleep, characterized by heightened susceptibility to suggestion. (dictionary.com)" __Origin:__ "it also comes from the Greek God of sleep Hypnos. Hypnos being the personification of sleep relating to heath, it is ironic that Hypnos's half brother is Thanatos the god of Death. (American Heritage Dictionary)(wikipedia.com)" __Usage:__ Hypnosis is great for stress management, weight management, increasing self-confidence, smoking cessatation, and improving athletic ability. Used to induce a sleep like trance which can be used to make people do things out of their control.

(Molly)Morphine: **Definition:** //"–// //noun//    //Pharmacology// . “A white, bitter, crystalline alkaloid, C17H19N03.H20, the most important narcotic and addictive principle of opium, obtained by extraction and crystallization and used chiefly in medicine as a pain reliever and sedative”(dictionary.refrences.com) The word morphine comes for the greek god Morpheus, god of dreams. "Someone who is " in the arms of Morpheus" is asleep"(dictionary.references.com). Morpheus was the son of Hypnos, or the god of sleep. The usage of mophine is to releve pain, impairs mental and physical preformance, releaves fear and ansiety, and produces euphoria. It also decreases hunger, inhibits the cough reflex, produces constipation, and usually the sex drive; in women it may interfear with the menstual cycal.
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(George)Somnolent: The modern English definition of somnolent is to be sleepy/drowsy or tending to cause sleep(dictionary.com). The word somnolent comes from the greek god, Somnus, the god of sleep. Somnus is the Roman god of sleep, "a translation of the Greek Hypnos. Somnus caused the death of Palunurus, the helsman ofAeneas, who fell asleep at the coast of Lucania (Virgil V, 838)"(pantheon.org).
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__Work Cited__
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 * 2) "Syringe." //The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition//. Houghton Mifflin Company, 2004. 07 Oct. 2008. .
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 * 4) "Hypnosis." //Online Etymology Dictionary//. Douglas Harper, Historian. 07 Oct. 2008. .
 * 5) "Hypnosis." //The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition//. Houghton Mifflin Company, 2004. 07 Oct. 2008. .
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http://www.pantheon.org/articles/s/somnus.html http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/somnolent

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 * __Morphine__**:


 * Definition**:
 * "A white, bitter, crystalline alkaloid" (Dictionary)
 * "The most important narcotic and addictive principle of opium" (Dictionary)


 * Origin**: The word morphine comes from the greek god of dreams,Morpheus. "Morpheus had the capacity to assume the form of any and every human being" (Opioids). The god Morpheus is supposedly the son of Hypnos. Morpheus sends images in only dreams or visions. This relates to the effect morphine has on humans.


 * Usage:** After my friend's accident, she became addicted to morphine.


 * __Hypnosis__**:


 * Definition**: "A wakeful state of focused attention and heightened suggestibility, with diminished peripheral awareness" (Dictionary).


 * Origin**: In Greek mythology, the word "hypnos" comes form the same story that gives us the word "morphine." Hypnos was the god of sleep. "Hypnos and Morpheus were occasionally called upon to exercise their powers when the chief gods wished to intervene in mortal affairs. Hypnos could induce a state of sleep, and Morpheus had the power to make human forms appear to dreamers" (Jewish World Review). This also relates to Asklepios, the Greek god of medicine. He healed people in the dream healing temples.


 * Usage**: In the early 1900s the talent of hypnosis was widely practiced.

__**Syringe**__:


 * Definition**: A small device consisting of a glass, metal, or hard rubber tube, narrowed at its outlet. It is used for cleaning wounds, injecting fluids into the body, etc. Any similar device for pumping and spraying liquids through a small aperture (Dictionary).


 * Origin**: "Syringe comes from the name of a nymph named Syrinx in ancient Greek mythology" (cat.learnhub). Syrinx changed into a hollow water reed to escape the romantic advances of Pan. Pan then used the reed to build his musical pipe. In the book //__Ovid__//, Mercury tells Argus, the 100- eyed guardian [of Io] the story of Pan and Syrinx.


 * Usage**: In many hospitals, doctors use different types of syringes for different practices.

__**Somnolen**____**t**__:


 * Definition**:
 * A kind of induced sleep
 * "Inclined to or heavy with sleep" (Merriam Webster)


 * Origin**: "The Roman god of sleep, a translation of the Greek Hypnos. Somnus caused the death of Palunurus, the helsman of Aeneas, who fell asleep at the coast of Lucania" (Pantheon).


 * Usage**: After the child's play-date, he was very tired and fell into a somnolent sleep.

__//**Works Cited**//__:

1. __From Morpheus to Morphine__.BLTC Research. 

2. __Interesting Etymologies.__ 2008. LearnHub. 

3. __Oxford: The English Dictionary____. 2008. Oxford University Press (OUP). 

3.__ Somnus__. Micha F. Lindemans. 06 June 1997. 

5.__ The Oxford Third International Dictionary__. London: 1989 "Somnolent."