Sentence examples for vegetative coma from inspiring English sources

A man goes into a vegetative coma for 200 years.

The pope also told a woman whose son has been in a vegetative coma since April 2009 that "certainly his soul is still present in his body".

When he got there, Dr. Mayer said, Dr. Naqvi's score on the Glasgow coma scale was a 4, near bottom on a scale of 3 to 15, and he had a high chance of remaining in a vegetative coma permanently.

The Brief went on to argue that there is little moral difference between allowing an authorized physician to administer a life-ending injection on behalf of a terminally ill patient and allowing an authorized physician to turn off the respirator or remove the feeding tube of a person in a vegetative coma.

I think 2015 is officially the year we can all agree that hip-hop is in a vegetative coma close to death.

Men and women with terminal illnesses or in vegetative comas are ascribed a "privacy right" to refuse life-sustaining nutrition, respirators, and medical care (Beauchamp 2000).

"The ensuing infection," the form cautioned, "may be totally ineffective in treatment of the tumor" and could cause "vegetative state, coma or death".

Recently, Vanhaudenhuyse investigated whether the integrity of the resting state connectivity pattern in the DMN would differ in different pathological alterations of consciousness, from locked-in syndrome to minimally conscious, vegetative then coma patients.

Such a disorder can be a temporary or long-term condition: some patients will move through stages of coma, vegetative and minimally conscious states and emerge into full awareness while others will remain in a vegetative or minimally conscious state for the rest of their lives [ 5].

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.

These questions become more complicated when the patient is incapable of making rational decisions in his own interest, as in the case of infants and children, patients suffering from disabling psychiatric disorders such as schizophrenia or degenerative brain diseases such as Alzheimer disease, and patients who are in a vegetative state (see coma).