Sentence examples for lucid interval from inspiring English sources

Both pieces mentioned the "lucid interval" defense.

A lucid interval, and a great expenditure of effort, permit you to look at the clock.

The classic presentation of an epidural hematoma, however, involves what is known as the lucid interval.

Nevertheless, they lost conscious recollection within minutes of their injury -- sometimes with a lucid interval, in which they could remember, before the amnesia set in.

"People classically have a lucid interval, like what she had," Dr. Langer said, adding that symptoms develop as the bleeding continues and the clot grows big enough to press on the brain.

"Daniel would have lost consciousness immediately after this impact so that any lucid interval, involving undoubted mental anguish and physical pain, would, mercifully, have been short.

"Most patients have a number of lucid intervals that come and go — it's not like they live in a fantasy world," Galvin said.

Having written some books in lucid intervals, which Cicero afterward emended, he killed himself in his 44th year (51 or 50 bce).

He has to keep pain at bay, but he needs lucid intervals to write his last play, Cold Lazarus, about a man whose head is cryogenically frozen and regenerated 400 years later, filled with memories of a vanished world.

"No doubt he is sometimes a little mad," the military secretary to the commander-in-chief replied, "but in his lucid intervals he is an uncommonly clever fellow though he looked a little wild before he embarked".

Thus, according to St Jerome, he was driven mad by a love philtre, wrote poetry in his lucid intervals, and died by his own hand, leaving his poem to be edited posthumously by Cicero.