Sentence examples for is vegetative from inspiring English sources
adjective
Of or relating to plants; especially to their growth.
To help eliminate this bias, Whyte developed what he calls the single-subject assessment, in which doctors design a set of tests specific to each patient's idiosyncrasies to determine whether the patient is vegetative or minimally conscious.
Most botanists agree that the most common means of reproduction is vegetative; that is, portions of an existing lichen break off and fall away to begin new growth nearby.
Evidence of such competition necessarily is vegetative change - requiring greater understanding of vegetative ecology than is typical for wildlife managers.
Observational assessments of Mr Routley since he responded in the scanner have continued to suggest he is vegetative.
For families and medical staff it is often very difficult to assess whether a patient is vegetative or has some residual awareness and ability to communicate.
Every time we let him out, he would go half way and freeze and go into is vegetative state.
A second class member whose expression is vegetative-associated appeared in gymnosperms and all three modern classes had fully evolved by the appearance of the first known basal angiosperm.
Tree buds may be vegetative or reproductive.
"She's vegetative, she's flat-out vegetative, there's never been a shred of doubt that she's vegetative, and nothing's going to change that," Dr. Cranford said in a telephone interview.
(Some neurologists estimate that an adult who has been vegetative for six months following a traumatic brain injury has only a twenty-per-cent chance of regaining consciousness).
We now know from that paper and from our follow-up papers that close to 20% of patients who are thought to be vegetative are actually conscious, but are nevertheless incapable of demonstrating their consciousness through standard clinical assessments.
