(n.) Coma with complete insensibility; deep lethargy.
Example Sentences:
(1) The present study reports the age specific prevalence rate of tumors in autopsies of the years 1958--1969, registered in the Medical Academy "Carl Gustav Carus" Dresden.
(2) The Medical Academy in Dresden bears his name "Carl Gustav Carus" since its foundation.
(3) There is just one paper which touches ophthalmology and teratology: in 1842, Carus described the monstrous head of a pig with cyclopia.
(4) They demonstrate a cryo-apparatus IKG 3 for liquid nitrogen which is part of the Dresden equipment and was elaborated by the department for cryomedicine of the "Carl Gustav Carus" Academy in cooperation with the Technical University in Dresden.
(5) Roderick Carus QC, defending Atkinson, asked for his client to be discharged, along with the other defendants cleared of all charges - Hadfield, James, and Dixon.
(6) The 2nd Dresden hematonocological meeting, organized by the Department of hematology and oncology of the Medical Academy "Carl Gustav Carus" and by the Tumorzentrum Dresden, focused ethical and anthropological topics.
(7) Physiognomy found acceptance in the medicine of modern times, particularly through the publications of Johann Caspar Lavater (1741-1801), Carl Gustav Carus (1789-1869) and then, after 1838, of Karl Heinrich Baumgärtner (1798-1886) who took advantage of lithography, which had just come into use, to reproduce pictures of patients.
(8) Curved nailing according to Lezius and Herzer was applied to 700 of 1,062 cases of pertrochanteric fractures of the femur at the Surgical Department of the "Carl Gustav Carus" Medical Academy, Dresden, between 1964 and 1985.
(9) Roderick Carus QC, defending Atkinson, asked for his client to be discharged, along with those of the other defendants cleared of all charges - Hadfield, James, and Dixon.
(10) Carl Gustav Carus is the most important personality in medicine in Dresden in the first half of the 19th century.
(11) My father had a copy of Paul Carus’s translation.
Coma
Definition:
(n.) A state of profound insensibility from which it is difficult or impossible to rouse a person. See Carus.
(n.) The envelope of a comet; a nebulous covering, which surrounds the nucleus or body of a comet.
(n.) A tuft or bunch, -- as the assemblage of branches forming the head of a tree; or a cluster of bracts when empty and terminating the inflorescence of a plant; or a tuft of long hairs on certain seeds.
Example Sentences:
(1) The patient presented in coma but regained full consciousness over the next six hours with supportive therapy.
(2) A series of 170 patients with non-traumatic coma seen over a 16-month period is reported.
(3) All of them had fever, jaundice, abdominal pain, leucocytosis and deranged liver function while 26.6% were in shock, 13.3% in coma and 40% in azotaemia.
(4) The Glasgow Coma Score (GCS) were recorded at the time of admission for all patients.
(5) Other factors that may have important effects on recovery include the localization, nature, extension and degree of brain damage, the patient's sex and age, the duration of coma, the patient's original cognitive capacity, his personality and motivation as well as the duration and intensity of rehabilitation and the time before starting rehabilitation.
(6) Insulin-induced hypoglycemia provokes polyribosome disaggregation and accumulation of monomeric ribosomes in the brain of rats with hypoglycemic paresis and coma.
(7) Characteristics of the poisoning include a delay between exposure and onset of symptoms; early systemic toxicity with congestive changes in the lungs and oliguric renal failure; prominent cerebellar and Parkinsonian neurologic symptoms as well as seizures and coma in severe cases; and psychiatric disturbances that can last from months to years.
(8) The authors report 6 cases of acute respiratory failure complicating chronic bronchial and lung disease admitted to hospital with the diagnosis of: heart disease, 3 cases, pulmonary oedema, pulmonary embolism, atrial flutter; status asthmaticus : one case; neuro-psychiatric disease : 2 cases (toxic coma and agitation).
(9) Authors have previously published April 1988 a lecture where they criticize the bad denomination "passed coma" full of ambiguity for public mind, to which "brain death" ought to be preferred.
(10) A clinical examination is carried out one month after the coma when the patient survives.
(11) No changes in content of cerebral fructose 2,6-bisphosphate were found in mild hypoglycemia, but the level of this compound was markedly decreased in hypoglycemic coma and recovered after 30 min of glucose administration.
(12) Nonketotic hyperosmolal diabetic coma, which is rare in children, is associated with a high mortality in both children and adults.
(13) Characteristic clinical features were present in 19 patients, including a gradual obtundation after the initial hemorrhage in 16 patients and small nonreactive pupils in nine patients (all with a Glasgow Coma Scale score of 7 or less).
(14) We have chosen six illustrations showing how much vital information can be obtained from median nerve SEPs during the first 24 hours in coma.
(15) In 11 patients with hepatic coma (stage IV and V according to Abouna) extracorporeal haemoperfusion using the Scribner shunt (radial or profunda femoris artery) was performed over 12 to 27 hours with 22 baboon and one human livers.
(16) The comA gene product has been found to exhibit amino acid sequence similarity to the so-called effector class of signal-transduction proteins.
(17) Eight patients emerged from coma, six of them showed sufficient regeneration of the diseased liver.
(18) The importance of including highaltitude pulmonary edema in the differential diagnosis of any patient who is admitted with coma after a sojourn at high altitude is stressed.
(19) Dyspnea, shock, coma, convulsions, infectious CNS affections, head injury and burns are reported in detail.
(20) Recovery was assessed by means of a modified Steward coma scale.