"obtundity" meaning in English

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          "text": "[T]here are beings [who] . . . revel, with a lively zest, among all the things that are most foul and loathsome. . . . Sensuality, force of temper, inertness, obtundity of perception, personal idolatry, and the destitution of the higher and better emotions of humanity, are the ingredients of a constitution of this order."
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          "ref": "1975, George Martin Yuill, The Treatment of Renal Failure, page 24",
          "text": "Clinically one sees gradually developing oedema, often a strikingly puffy face, increasing mental obtundity, the patient finally lapsing into confusion and stupor.",
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          "ref": "2014, David J. Magee, Orthopedic Physical Assessment, page 104",
          "text": "The patient goes through the following stages of recovery: unconsciousness (also called paralytic coma), stupor, obtundity, lethargy, confusion (with or without delirium), near lucidity with automatism, and finally full alertness.",
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