old man sleeping after dinner

A fanciful term for the image evoked by full-scale parasympathetic nervous system activation, which may be accompanied by bradycardia, bronchoconstriction resulting in noisy respiration, snoring, meiosis, increased salivation/drooling

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old man sleeping after dinner

Neurology A fanciful descriptor for the image evoked by full-scale parasympathetic nervous system activation, which may be accompanied by bradycardia, bronchoconstriction resulting in noisy respiration, snoring, meiosis, ↑ salivation/drooling

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