Coma
noun
A state where a person is unconscious and cannot be woken up, usually caused by illness, injury, or drug.
After the car accident, he lay in a coma for three weeks.
Often appears as...
- slip into a coma
- come out of a coma
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Technical
noun
A misty appearance surrounding the nucleus of a comet.
The coma of a comet can extend millions of miles into space.
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noun
A tuft or cluster of hairs, scales, or bristles on certain plants.
Each seed is attached to a little coma, which helps it to be carried on the breeze.
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Technical
noun
A state where a person is unconscious and cannot be woken up, usually caused by illness, injury, or drug.
After the car accident, he lay in a coma for three weeks.
Often appears as...
- slip into a coma
- come out of a coma
Usage tips
Neutralf
Technical
noun
A misty appearance surrounding the nucleus of a comet.
The coma of a comet can extend millions of miles into space.
Usage tips
Technical
noun
A tuft or cluster of hairs, scales, or bristles on certain plants.
Each seed is attached to a little coma, which helps it to be carried on the breeze.
Usage tips
Technical
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3Depth of Unconsciousness
A 'coma' implies a deeper level of unconsciousness than simply sleeping or fainting.
Doctors assessed the depth of his coma using specific scales.
Pro Tip 2/3Medical Severity
Coma as a medical term implies a serious condition often requiring emergency response.
After the injury, the patient was rushed into ICU due to being in a coma.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Permanent
'Coma' doesn't necessarily mean a permanent state; patients can emerge from it.
The family held hope as patients can sometimes come out of a coma.
Pro Tip 1/3Depth of Unconsciousness
A 'coma' implies a deeper level of unconsciousness than simply sleeping or fainting.
Doctors assessed the depth of his coma using specific scales.
Pro Tip 2/3Medical Severity
Coma as a medical term implies a serious condition often requiring emergency response.
After the injury, the patient was rushed into ICU due to being in a coma.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Permanent
'Coma' doesn't necessarily mean a permanent state; patients can emerge from it.
The family held hope as patients can sometimes come out of a coma.
Pro Tip 1/3Depth of Unconsciousness
A 'coma' implies a deeper level of unconsciousness than simply sleeping or fainting.
Doctors assessed the depth of his coma using specific scales.
Pro Tip 2/3Medical Severity
Coma as a medical term implies a serious condition often requiring emergency response.
After the injury, the patient was rushed into ICU due to being in a coma.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Permanent
'Coma' doesn't necessarily mean a permanent state; patients can emerge from it.
The family held hope as patients can sometimes come out of a coma.
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John Searle: Our shared...
for a very simple, logical reason, namely, it's a necessary condition on anything being important in our lives that we're conscious. You care about science, philosophy, music, art, whatever -- it's no good if you're a zombie or in a coma, right? So consciousness is number one.
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Michael Nichols:...
raised a lot of money we got an airplane for the park guards got better equipped but still these guys were just they're just too good but right now that it's turned around and they've had the first babies born in the last few years in ins a coma you know Park guards are
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3 clues to understanding...
But there's another rare syndrome, so rare, in fact, that very few physicians have heard about it, not even neurologists. This is called the Capgras delusion, and that is a patient, who's otherwise completely normal, has had a head injury, comes out of coma,
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Simon Lewis: Don't take...
and it is inside that deepest level of coma, on the rim between my life and my death, that I'm experiencing the full connection and full consciousness of inner space. From my family looking in from outside, what they're trying to figure out
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At what moment are you...
So it would seem that all our various medical miracles can delay or prevent death but not reverse it. But that's not as simple as it sounds because constant advancements in technology and medicine have resulted in diagnoses such as coma,
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What happens in your...
than the letter B, and so on. Could a computer one day communicate for people who can't speak? What if a computer can help us understand the thoughts of a person in a coma? We are not there yet, but pay close attention.
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Amy Purdy: Living beyond...
I was in the hospital on life support with less than a two percent chance of living. It wasn't until days later as I lay in a coma that the doctors diagnosed me with bacterial meningitis,
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Safari Live - Day 133 PIPE...
life apparently years very emancipated so he's not well and he was trying to follow the in comas this morning to try see if he could get an easy meal so I don't know if it's a line we've
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Bunker Roy: Learning...
people dying of hunger, for the first time. It changed my life. I came back home, told my mother, "I'd like to live and work in a village." Mother went into a coma.
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Training Critical...
him a cotton coma big brother if we want to determine how strong a fertilizer is if we have three vitalizes it's simple
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John Searle: Our shared...
for a very simple, logical reason, namely, it's a necessary condition on anything being important in our lives that we're conscious. You care about science, philosophy, music, art, whatever -- it's no good if you're a zombie or in a coma, right? So consciousness is number one.
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Michael Nichols:...
raised a lot of money we got an airplane for the park guards got better equipped but still these guys were just they're just too good but right now that it's turned around and they've had the first babies born in the last few years in ins a coma you know Park guards are
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3 clues to understanding...
But there's another rare syndrome, so rare, in fact, that very few physicians have heard about it, not even neurologists. This is called the Capgras delusion, and that is a patient, who's otherwise completely normal, has had a head injury, comes out of coma,
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Simon Lewis: Don't take...
and it is inside that deepest level of coma, on the rim between my life and my death, that I'm experiencing the full connection and full consciousness of inner space. From my family looking in from outside, what they're trying to figure out
Video examples
At what moment are you...
So it would seem that all our various medical miracles can delay or prevent death but not reverse it. But that's not as simple as it sounds because constant advancements in technology and medicine have resulted in diagnoses such as coma,
Video examples
What happens in your...
than the letter B, and so on. Could a computer one day communicate for people who can't speak? What if a computer can help us understand the thoughts of a person in a coma? We are not there yet, but pay close attention.
Video examples
Amy Purdy: Living beyond...
I was in the hospital on life support with less than a two percent chance of living. It wasn't until days later as I lay in a coma that the doctors diagnosed me with bacterial meningitis,
Video examples
Safari Live - Day 133 PIPE...
life apparently years very emancipated so he's not well and he was trying to follow the in comas this morning to try see if he could get an easy meal so I don't know if it's a line we've
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Bunker Roy: Learning...
people dying of hunger, for the first time. It changed my life. I came back home, told my mother, "I'd like to live and work in a village." Mother went into a coma.
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Training Critical...
him a cotton coma big brother if we want to determine how strong a fertilizer is if we have three vitalizes it's simple
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Suzan-Lori Parks
American Playwright
Everything I write doesn't appear to be biography until later. I often say that I've never written about anything I've experienced. Of course, that's not true. But it doesn't appear familiar to me at all. And maybe that's because I have to be in a kind of coma in order to write. If it appeared familiar, I wouldn't.
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Emily V. Gordon
American Writer
I don't remember being put into the coma, but I do have a lot of weird memories from being under. This may be because I was in a coma via medicine rather than trauma. That time period played out for me as one long rambling dream where I was at a hospital to visit my boyfriend, who I thought was in an accident.
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Julie Plec
American Producer
It doesn't matter if these characters are supposed to be together forever: if their chemistry gets stale, you want somebody to die, you want to put somebody in a coma, you want to write them off the show - anything to save you.
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Barry White
American Musician
The cops picked me up for attempted murder. I can still see the detectives, licking their chops. Thought they had me. Two weeks later, the cat came out of a coma and told the truth. I was innocent.
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Tricky
English Musician
My manager told me that a kid who was in a coma woke up after ten days when they played him one of my songs. That now means more to me than winning any award.
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Bill Pullman
American Actor
I was 21, and rehearsing a play, took a fall and was in a coma for a few days. And when I recovered, I'd lost my sense of smell completely.
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Eben Alexander
American Educator
There is no scientific explanation for the fact that while my body lay in coma, my mind - my conscious, inner self - was alive and well.
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Shoojit Sircar
Indian Director
My dad was suffering with cancer for six years and my mum was in coma for three-and-a-half months. So, I have seen the hospital life.
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Rob Liefeld
American Writer
My entire tenth grade year, my dad was in a coma. That changes a person. It changes a kid. It makes you ridiculously independent.
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Robin Lopez
I possess the unique ability to slip into a coma at any moment's notice.
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Suzan-Lori Parks
American Playwright
Everything I write doesn't appear to be biography until later. I often say that I've never written about anything I've experienced. Of course, that's not true. But it doesn't appear familiar to me at all. And maybe that's because I have to be in a kind of coma in order to write. If it appeared familiar, I wouldn't.
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Emily V. Gordon
American Writer
I don't remember being put into the coma, but I do have a lot of weird memories from being under. This may be because I was in a coma via medicine rather than trauma. That time period played out for me as one long rambling dream where I was at a hospital to visit my boyfriend, who I thought was in an accident.
Quote examples
Julie Plec
American Producer
It doesn't matter if these characters are supposed to be together forever: if their chemistry gets stale, you want somebody to die, you want to put somebody in a coma, you want to write them off the show - anything to save you.
Quote examples
Barry White
American Musician
The cops picked me up for attempted murder. I can still see the detectives, licking their chops. Thought they had me. Two weeks later, the cat came out of a coma and told the truth. I was innocent.
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Tricky
English Musician
My manager told me that a kid who was in a coma woke up after ten days when they played him one of my songs. That now means more to me than winning any award.
Quote examples
Bill Pullman
American Actor
I was 21, and rehearsing a play, took a fall and was in a coma for a few days. And when I recovered, I'd lost my sense of smell completely.
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Eben Alexander
American Educator
There is no scientific explanation for the fact that while my body lay in coma, my mind - my conscious, inner self - was alive and well.
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Shoojit Sircar
Indian Director
My dad was suffering with cancer for six years and my mum was in coma for three-and-a-half months. So, I have seen the hospital life.
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Rob Liefeld
American Writer
My entire tenth grade year, my dad was in a coma. That changes a person. It changes a kid. It makes you ridiculously independent.
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Robin Lopez
I possess the unique ability to slip into a coma at any moment's notice.
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