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PRONUNCIATION OF VEGETATIVE COMA

vegetative coma  [ˈvedʒɪtətɪv ˈkəʊmə] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF VEGETATIVE COMA

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Vegetative coma is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES VEGETATIVE COMA MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Persistent vegetative state

A persistent vegetative state is a disorder of consciousness in which patients with severe brain damage are in a state of partial arousal rather than true awareness. It is a diagnosis of some uncertainty in that it deals with a syndrome. After four weeks in a vegetative state, the patient is classified as in a persistent vegetative state. This diagnosis is classified as a permanent vegetative state after approximately one year of being in a vegetative state.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH VEGETATIVE COMA


angiosarcoma
ˌændʒɪəʊsɑːˈkəʊmə
aroma
əˈrəʊmə
beachcomber
ˈbiːtʃˌkəʊmə
carcinosarcoma
ˌkɑːsɪnəʊˈsɑːkəʊmə
coma
ˈkəʊmə
comber
ˈkəʊmə
diploma
dɪˈpləʊmə
fibrosarcoma
ˌfaɪbrəʊsɑːˈkəʊmə
glaucoma
ɡlɔːˈkəʊmə
homer
ˈhəʊmə
leucoma
luːˈkəʊmə
loma
ˈləʊmə
lymphosarcoma
ˌlɪmfəʊsɑːˈkəʊmə
Oklahoma
ˌəʊkləˈhəʊmə
osteosarcoma
ˌɒstɪəʊˌsɑːˈkəʊmə
sarcoma
sɑːˈkəʊmə
semicoma
ˌsɛmɪˈkəʊmə
soma
ˈsəʊmə
Tacoma
təˈkəʊmə
trachoma
trəˈkəʊmə

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE VEGETATIVE COMA

vegetable sheep
vegetable silk
vegetable slicer
vegetable soup
vegetable sponge
vegetable tallow
vegetable wax
vegetably
vegetal
vegetally
vegetant
vegetarian
vegetarianism
vegetate
vegetated
vegetation
vegetational
vegetative
vegetatively
vegetativeness

WORDS THAT END LIKE VEGETATIVE COMA

acoustic neuroma
adenocarcinoma
boma
chroma
Dodoma
Ewing´s sarcoma
food coma
groma
haematoma
homa
Kaposi´s sarcoma
lymphoma
melanoma
mesothelioma
myeloma
narcoma
noma
Roma
stroma
teratoma

Synonyms and antonyms of vegetative coma in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «vegetative coma» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF VEGETATIVE COMA

Find out the translation of vegetative coma to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of vegetative coma from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «vegetative coma» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

植物人昏迷
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

coma vegetativo
570 millions of speakers

English

vegetative coma
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

वनस्पति कोमा
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

غيبوبة الخضري
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

вегетативная кома
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

coma vegetativo
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

উদ্ভিজ্জ কোমা
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

coma végétatif
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Koma vegetatif
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

vegetativen Koma
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

栄養昏睡
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

식물 혼수 상태
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Koma vegetatif
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

tình trạng hôn mê thực vật
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

தாவர கோமா
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

वनस्पतिविरहित कोमा
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Vejetatif komaya
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

coma vegetativo
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

wegetatywnego śpiączka
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

вегетативна кома
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

comă vegetativă
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

αγενούς κώμα
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

vegetatiewe koma
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

vegetativ koma
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

vegetative koma
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of vegetative coma

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «VEGETATIVE COMA»

The term «vegetative coma» is used very little and occupies the 179.422 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «VEGETATIVE COMA» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about vegetative coma

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «VEGETATIVE COMA»

Discover the use of vegetative coma in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to vegetative coma and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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THE NEUROLOGY OF CONSCIOUSNESS: Cognitive Neuroscience and ...
This is the first book to summarize our current understanding of the neuroanatomical and functional underpinnings of human consciousness by emphasizing a lesional approach offered via the study of neurological patients.
Steven Laureys, Giulio Tononi, 2011
2
Unlocking the Brain: Volume 2: Consciousness
28-1). y=–60 x=4 PCC/Precuneus 6543210–1–2–3 Controls Minimally consciousstate state Vegetative Coma Controls Medial prefrontal cortex (b) 10 8 6 4 2 0 –2 (a) conscious state state Minimally Vegetative Coma These data clearly ...
Georg Northoff, 2013
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Unlocking the Brain: Volume 2: Consciousness
28-1). y=–60 x=4 PCC/Precuneus 6543210–1–2–3 Controls Minimally consciousstate state Vegetative Coma Controls Medial prefrontal cortex (b) 10 8 6 4 2 0 –2 (a) conscious state state Minimally Vegetative Coma These data clearly ...
Georg Northoff, 2013
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Coma Science: Coma Science
(3) Making reparation for non-economic injuries dependent on the victim's consciousness necessarily implies 'a discrimination which would follow from the fact that a patient in a state of vegetative coma [y] would be denied compensation while ...
Professor Laureys, 2009
5
Hospital Liability
40 Two recent decisions, have rejected this brain-damage threshold to allow refusal of medical and nutritional care when the patient is terminally ill, but not in a permanent vegetative coma.41 In a New Jersey case, the Supreme Court ...
James Walker Smith
6
Biological Psychology
She subsequently had a heart attack, lostconsciousness andstopped breathing twice fora period of 15 minutes. Thisledto irreversible brain damage, and she lapsed into a vegetative coma. After several months, her parents requested that she ...
Minna Lyons, Neil Harrison, Gayle Brewer, 2014
7
Elder Law
All the experts agreed, however, that there was no reasonable likelihood that Brother Fox would ever emerge from the vegetative coma or recover his cognitive powers. There was also evidence, submitted by the petitioner, that before the ...
Jeffrey A. Helewitz, 2001
8
Discovery Series: Introduction to Psychology
In some comas, a person appears to be asleep and has absolutely no awareness or responsiveness; this is called a vegetative state (such as the case of Terri Schiavo, who was in a vegetative coma for over a decade). People in vegetative  ...
Rod Plotnik, Haig Kouyoumdjian, 2012
9
The Broken and the Whole: Discovering Joy After Heartbreak
September 1986, when Eyal had been in his vegetative coma for a couple of months, we passed the time and encouraged his recovery by talking to him incessantly about everything: Big Kenny (his buddy from nursery school), his favorite ...
Charles S. Sherman, 2014
10
The Complete Retirement Survival Guide: Everything You Need ...
Karen Ann Quinlan, age 21, kept alive in a persistent vegetative coma by artificial feeding, whose parents' fight to disconnect their daughter's respirator led to the first judicial decision on the right to die. • Nancy Cruzan, age 25, kept alive in a ...
Peter J. Strauss, Nancy M. Lederman, 2003

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« EDUCALINGO. Vegetative coma [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/vegetative-coma>. May 2024 ».
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