Sentence examples for coma state from inspiring English sources

Coma, state of unconsciousness, characterized by loss of reaction to external stimuli and absence of spontaneous nervous activity, usually associated with injury to the cerebrum.

Fig. 46 The predictive role of PCC-mPFC coupling measured during coma state and neurological outcome.

At admittance in ICU, the patient was in coma state (Glasgow Coma Scale = 4/15), with decerebrate rigidity (also evoked by slight stimulations), deep hyperreflexia, bilateral Babinski sign and divergent deviation of eyes with miotic pupils.

At discharge from Neurological Department after 90 d from admission, when the patient was transferred to Rehabilitation Department for Severe Brain Injuries, he was in persistent coma state with no purposeful responses to stimuli, miotic reactive pupils, and flaccid areflexic tetraplegia due to a superimposed critical illness polyneuropathy, demonstrated with electroneurografric examinations.

During massive geothermal emission events in Cameroon, cutaneous erythema and bullae have also been associated with coma states caused by exposure to carbon dioxide in the air on an unknown proportion of corpses and 161 (19%) survivors treated in a hospital.

It is a 90-minute song-cycle about the strangeness of coma-state perceptions versus real events — memories from the past, or actions around the patient's bed that might somehow influence the dream in real time.

As Owen put it, "The thought of coma, vegetative state, and other disorders of consciousness troubles us all, because it awakens the old terror of being buried alive.

A trooper who the police believe was shot in the back by the former fugitive Ralph J. Phillips was semiconscious on Thursday after a month in a medically induced coma, the state police said.

Frontoparietal hypometabolism is also implicated in unconscious states, including deep sleep, coma, vegetative states, epileptic loss of consciousness, and general anesthesia.

Ms. Santillán had type O blood; the organs were type A and her body rejected them, sending her into a coma-like state.

Sodium thiopental, a barbiturate that reliably induces a coma-like state, was once the first of three drugs in the execution protocol pioneered by Oklahoma in 1977.