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The thousand-yard stare (also referred to as two-thousand-yard stare) is the blank, unfocused gaze of people experiencing dissociation due to acute stress or traumatic events. It was originally used about war combatants and the post-traumatic stress they exhibited but is now also used to refer to an unfocused gaze observed in people under a ...
As such, the meaning of a person's staring behavior depends upon the attributions made by the observer. [2] When caught staring, the moment can be a source of embarrassment depending on the reason for staring. For example, in the movie Superbad, the character Fogell is caught staring at a classmate’s exposed thong underwear, or a whale tail ...
A woman with a neutral expression. A blank expression, also known as a poker face, is a facial expression characterized by neutral positioning of the facial features, implying a lack of strong emotion.
Brazy "Brazy" is another word for "crazy," replacing the "c" with a "b." It can also be used to describe someone with great skill or who has accomplished something seemingly impossible.
Stares blankly into space; Underactive, slow moving or sluggish; Lethargic or less energetic; Trouble staying awake or alert; Has drowsy or sleepy appearance; Gets lost in own thoughts; Apathetic or withdrawn, less engaged in activities; Loses train of thought or cognitive set; Processes information not as quickly or accurately
The hallmark of the absence seizures is abrupt and sudden-onset impairment of consciousness, interruption of ongoing activities, a blank stare, possibly a brief upward rotation of the eyes. If the patient is speaking, speech is slowed or interrupted; if walking, they stand transfixed; if eating, the food will stop on its way to the mouth.
Typhoid facies. The Hippocratic facies (Latin: facies Hippocratica) [1] is the change produced in the face recognisable as a medical sign known as facies and prognostic of death.
A thesaurus (pl.: thesauri or thesauruses), sometimes called a synonym dictionary or dictionary of synonyms, is a reference work which arranges words by their meanings (or in simpler terms, a book where one can find different words with similar meanings to other words), [1] [2] sometimes as a hierarchy of broader and narrower terms, sometimes simply as lists of synonyms and antonyms.