What's the difference between comatose and drowsy?

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.

Drowsy


Definition:

  • (superl.) Inclined to drowse; heavy with sleepiness; lethargic; dozy.
  • (superl.) Disposing to sleep; lulling; soporific.
  • (superl.) Dull; stupid.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) YOH shifted the healthy subjects' mood towards feeling panicked, elevated systolic blood pressure and plasma prolactin concentrations, reduced digit symbol substitution, and induced drowsiness and passiveness.
  • (2) Side-effects (pruritus, nausea, vomiting, drowsiness) were also noted.
  • (3) MIDAZOLAM IS SUPERIOR TO DIAZEPAM IN CERTAIN WAYS: it has a more rapid onset; produces greater anterograde amnesia, less postoperative drowsiness, less venous irritation and less likelihood of thrombophlebitis development.
  • (4) Drowsiness and altered taste perception were increased significantly over placebo only in the high-dose azelastine group.
  • (5) Long-acting drugs and techniques that are associated with excessive drowsiness or nausea and vomiting should not be utilized.
  • (6) At altitude, temazepam led to less wakefulness and to drowsy sleep--there were no prolonged sleep latencies.
  • (7) The lowest recovery rate was observed in drowsy patients operated on between 4 and 10 days from the hemorrhage.
  • (8) Fatigue, drowsiness, and attention were self-rated using visual analogue scales; oral temperature was self-measured and a letter cancellation test was performed.
  • (9) Experimental evidence shows that during drowsiness, disfacilitation in thalamic and cortical neurons (by partial removal of influences from mesopontine, posterior hypothalamic, and basal forebrain activating systems) may coexist with active hypnogenic mechanisms.
  • (10) Ethanol alone impaired manual dexterity, increased drowsiness, reduced 'clearheadedness' and also tended to reduce feelings of aggression.
  • (11) However, both isomers showed different effects on the EEG and animal's behavior following convulsions; e.g., the cocaine-induced convulsions were followed by low-voltage fast waves in the EEGs associated with behavioral hyperexcitation, while pseudococaine-induced convulsions were followed by high-voltage slow waves associated with behavioral depression and drowsiness with intermittent sleep.
  • (12) However, mice treated topically with spiperone, unlike those treated systemically, exhibited no drowsiness or other evidence of central nervous system effects.
  • (13) The drug reduced the frequency of transitions into wakefulness and stage 1 (drowsiness) and reduced the time spent in stage 1; there was a withdrawal rebound.
  • (14) Adverse reactions to phenothiazines, including hypotension, sedation, drowsiness, extrapyramidal symptoms, tardive dyskinesia, cardiac toxicity and agranulocytosis, are often more common and severe than those attributed to narcotic analgesics.
  • (15) Apomorphine produced severe drowsiness in the PPS patients.
  • (16) Patients who received lorazepam or oxazepam also experienced significantly more severe drowsiness than those patients receiving methylprednisolone (both P less than 0.001).
  • (17) Side effects (principally drowsiness, ataxia, headache) occurred mainly during the initiation of therapy and decreased during therapy.
  • (18) Adverse effects of H1 blockers on the brain, such as drowsiness, may be produced as a consequence of this inhibitory action.
  • (19) The differences included slower alpha and more theta during THC experiences, reminiscent of initial drowsiness EEG, and of some results in schizophrenia.
  • (20) Neurological examination on admission: The patient was in drowsy state, papilledema on the both sides and right hemiparesis including the face were noted.

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