(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.
Comatose
Definition:
(a.) Relating to, or resembling, coma; drowsy; lethargic; as, comatose sleep; comatose fever.
Example Sentences:
(1) When outcome was examined in patients who were stuporous or comatose on admission, a significant increase in septal shift was found among patients with a poor outcome, but there was no significant relationship between outcome and degree of pineal or aqueductal shift.
(2) Atropine-comatose therapy was performed in 18 patients with schizophrenia and disorders in the framework of an obsessive-syndrome.
(3) The EEG pattern of diffused low-voltage non-reacting fast activity is exceptional in comatose patients.
(4) In this article the role of EPs and BSRs will be pointed out with special regard to their use in neurosurgery concerning awake and comatose patients as well.
(5) A questionnaire describing hypothetical cases of dehydration in an elderly terminal cancer patient in different clinical situations (conscious, demented, comatose) was sent to 978 physicians.
(6) These results illustrate the value of quantitative monitoring of neuromuscular function, especially during highly variable and unpredictable drug-induced blockade in the comatose state.
(7) It has been ascertained that in addition to the comatose and convulsive syndromes the prognosis of the disease is the least favourable in the syndrome of total inhibition of the CNS in the acute period.
(8) Three anoxic comatose children had EEG alpha-like activity and in two of them mu rhythm was recorded.
(9) 21 comatose patients were examined by somatosensory evoked potentials (SSEP).
(10) Brainstem auditory evoked potentials (BAEPs) were examined prospectively in ten clinically brain-dead and 13 comatose nonbrain-dead children.
(11) He had a rapidly deteriorating clinical course with severe liver dysfunction, repeated septicemia and seizures; he was comatose and was on a ventilator throughout; death occurred at 8 wk of age.
(12) Nine years after the initial admission, he was fallen into comatose state suddenly and admitted to a local hospital.
(13) On admission, he was comatose and flaccid with his four extremities.
(14) Significant improvement (P less than 0.002) of both the clinical grade of hepatic encephalopathy and the electroencephalographic abnormalities was observed after administration of the benzodiazepine-receptor partial inverse agonists: comatose rats with no spontaneous righting reflex regained consciousness immediately after injection of the drug.
(15) ICP monitoring and recording provide another important parameter in the intensive care management of many critically ill patients and have been shown to augment the clinical neurologic examination, particularly in comatose patients suffering from severe head trauma, toxic and metabolic encephalopathies, massive cerebral infarctions, and many other central nervous system insults.
(16) There was 1 operative death; a patient with tumor extending into the midbrain became comatose and died 10 days after surgery.
(17) Twelve comatose patients treated in a neurological intensive care unit have been given oxygen - Isoflurane gas inhalation to study the effect on Intra Cranial Pressure (I.C.P.)
(18) ICP monitoring seems to be important in the comatose forms of bacterial meningitis in the early period, herpes encephalitis and postinfectious encephalitis with severe status epilepticus.
(19) An indwelling urinary drainage catheter should be used only in patients who need multiple straight urinary catheterizations, develop urinary obstruction or incontinence, or are comatose and require frequent urinary output measurements.
(20) A rhesus monkey (Macaca mulatta), accidentally exposed to vapors of methyl methacrylate for 22 hours was found in a comatose condition.