(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.
Comate
Definition:
(a.) Encompassed with a coma, or bushy appearance, like hair; hairy.
Example Sentences:
(1) In this study, we tested a new artificial liver device using liver pieces in 8-h hemoperfusion of comatous porcine blood and compared two alternative tissue preparations.
(2) An 84-year-old man was brought into the hospital in a deeply comatous and dehydrated state.
(3) The contrary was found in comatous patients and cases with lethal outcome.
(4) Unfortunately, she became comatous after fine-needle aspiration of the parathyroid tumor.
(5) A 75 year-old comatous patient was admitted after ingestion of 200 mg oxazepam.
(6) There seems to be a relation between the values found and the comatous stage on one hand, the prognosis on the other hand.
(7) The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effects of this agent in reversal of benzodiazepine overdose and differentiation of comatous patients with drug overdose.
(8) He had status epilepticus which was followed by comatous state for a week.
(9) Two Japanese encephalitis cases with serious comatous symptoms were treated with the Human Recombinant Interferon-alpha A.
(10) Blood flow velocities of the basal cerebral arteries were studied by transcranial Doppler sonography in a 6 year old girl, comatous after cerebral contusion.
(11) complete tetraplegia, comatous state for more than 6 hours).
(12) He was admitted in a comatous state a few hours after intoxication.
(13) The diagnostic value of gastroscopy and radiological examination in patients with unexplained comatous states is emphasized.
(14) The patient rapidly deteriorates, declines to a vegetative state, becomes comatous, and is ultimately dead within several months.
(15) We report two cases of epithelial necrosis in comatous patients.
(16) Precise neurological assessment must rely on repeated examination and close clinical observation, especially in the comatous child with a head injury.
(17) Anticipating to get some new informations about the cerebral circulations of the comatous patients, two kinds of radioisotopic techniques were combined and applied to twelve unconscious patients of various etiologies.
(18) Among the predisposing factors for furunculous and migrating skin myiasis as well as wound, urogenital, intestinal and other myiases of the mucous membrane comatous conditions due to severe basic diseases play a special part.
(19) We have measured blood flow velocity in cerebral arteries of 17 comatous children with a transcranial pulsed Doppler equipment.
(20) The analysis of latencies and inter-peak latencies revealed no correlation between comatous and alert patients.