(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.
Lazy
Definition:
(superl.) Disinclined to action or exertion; averse to labor; idle; shirking work.
(superl.) Inactive; slothful; slow; sluggish; as, a lazy stream.
(superl.) Wicked; vicious.
Example Sentences:
(1) The "lazy-T" technique consists of a surgical horizontal and vertical shortening of the involved portion of the lower eyelid.
(2) In February last year the BBC was forced to apologise to the Mexican ambassador after a joke made by the three presenters that the nation's cars were like the people "lazy, feckless, flatulent, overweight, leaning against a fence asleep looking at a cactus with a blanket with a hole in the middle on as a coat".
(3) Extensive research among the Afghan National Army – 68 focus groups – and US military personnel alike concluded: "One group sees the other as a bunch of violent, reckless, intrusive, arrogant, self-serving profane, infidel bullies hiding behind high technology; and the other group [the US soldiers] generally views the former as a bunch of cowardly, incompetent, obtuse, thieving, complacent, lazy, pot-smoking, treacherous, and murderous radicals.
(4) But Shukrallah says groups like Dostour are weak not through laziness but because they were not allowed to develop under Mubarak and his predecessors.
(5) Simon Parker, a senior lecturer at the University of York, told the New Statesman that, during the recent dispute over lecturers' pay, his mobile phone number was posted on Facebook, with the instruction to students to give him a call if they felt they had been "fucked over" by the "lazy bastards in the AUT".
(6) For every drop shot that was loose, lazy and tossed away a point, there was another that smacked of insouciant brilliance.
(7) All Cavendishes are lazy by nature, and my entire life has been a battle against indolence.
(8) The logic is transitive and not direct: by “inner cities” Ryan meant black; by describing black men as not “learning” the “value and culture of work” – and since Charles Murray has called poor people “lazy” – Ryan was saying black men were lazy.
(9) Even more pointedly, he attacked the common Republican philosophical refuge of the doctrine of unintended consequences, or, as he put it, “We can’t do anything because we don’t yet know everything.” “The bullshitters have gotten pretty lazy,” he said, and the previous six hours of debate coverage on Fox News could have told you as much.
(10) I see evidence for this every week when I hear otherwise bright and articulate students justify their political opinions with vague, lazy arguments.
(11) In his book Fight the Power , Chuck rails against everything from Hollywood to the sports industry for portraying blacks as 'watermelon stealin', chicken eatin', knee knockin', eye poppin' lazy, crazy, dancin', submissive, Toms.
(12) Hate the smoking ban, HS2, Brussels, travellers, burqas, regulation, tax, Boris, debt, windfarms, quangos, foreign aid, crime, Abu Qatada, Muslims, tuition fees, lazy people, asylum seekers, the hunting ban?
(13) Perpetuating the myth that DLA prevents disabled people from working just stirs the assertion that disabled people are lazy scroungers, when the truth is that they would like nothing more than to work and contribute like everyone else.
(14) Their MPs tend to spend years chipping away at their seats before they win, getting under the skin of places in a way other parties don't, and once elected tend not to get lazy or complacent.
(15) David Miliband's heartache at leadership loss revealed in new Hillary Clinton emails Read more Longtime Clinton confidante Sidney Blumenthal also wrote a number of memos to the secretary of state on American politics, including one describing the current Speaker of the House, John Boehner, as “louche, alcoholic [and] lazy” while predicting that Mitt Romney would run for president on a ticket with former Mississippi governor Haley Barbour, whom he compared to Dick Cheney.
(16) This weather pushes players to be a bit lazy, to lose a bit of tension, a bit of sharpness, after that you pass slow, you do not react to the second balls, the time goes on and on, then when you wake up, it is half-time.
(17) David Ruffley, a Conservative MP on the Treasury select committee, said other risk-taking bankers and lazy regulators should also be examined.
(18) John Byrom, a lazy, self-indulgent 18th-century versifier, had three black hedgehogs on his coat of arms.
(19) Such curiosity is not a big ask, and demanding such rigorous thinking from tutors seems a much more effective way of getting diverse students into top universities than creating a mythical list of "better" subjects, writing them into the league tables and thereby sanctioning the lazy dismissal of anyone who does not fit the mould.
(20) (And the tech, if I wasn’t as lazy, could help me get better at cooking.)