"'More like stupefied. They're full-timers. Glazed. What's the other word. Average burn here's three years. Obtundated is the word."
obtundation |ob′tundā′shən|
a greatly reduced level of consciousness. The patient is not yet comatose but is close, arousing only with very strong stimulus.
Etymology: L, obtundere, to blunt, atus, process
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