What's the difference between comatose and lethargic?

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.

Lethargic


Definition:

  • (a.) Alt. of Lethargical

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Neurological examination revealed a lethargic man with good orientation to three spheres.
  • (2) These pigs also seemed more lethargic than controls and appeared sedated.
  • (3) On the other hand, the patient was noticed lethargic and showed parkinsonism i.e., rest tremor, cog-wheel rigidity, and hypokinesia.
  • (4) Physically, the patient appeared lethargic, and breathing sounds revealed diffuse rales and wheezing.
  • (5) Only miracidia classified as "active" or "slow" were capable of penetration, a capacity they retained for about 17 hours at 19 degrees C. Miracidia that were "lethargic" as a result of low temperature, old age or ultra-violet radiation lost their infective capacity.
  • (6) The colchicine-treated rats were lethargic and hypothermic as compared to controls.
  • (7) For the most part, however, this was a night when some familiar old failings could be detected in terms of England looking lethargic in possession.
  • (8) "People are now lethargic and listless because of starvation.
  • (9) Considered to be intoxicated from the acute effects of sniffing toluene or methylene chloride, the patient remained lethargic and ataxic despite removal from exposure and administration of supplemental oxygen.
  • (10) Upon presentation to the ED approximately 2.5 hr post-ingestion, the child was very lethargic and respirations were depressed.
  • (11) The child remained lethargic for several hours but otherwise had a normal neurological examination.
  • (12) The Gijon goalkeeper Ivan Cuellar was on fine form, particularly against Ronaldo, while Real’s approach play looked lethargic and too many passes went astray.
  • (13) A comfortable win was secured early here with Eddie Howe’s team, rightly lauded for their own achievements this season and previously unbeaten away this calendar year, made to look uncharacteristically timid, even lethargic at times, as Spurs swarmed all over them.
  • (14) Case 1: A 48-year-old woman, who complained of severe headache and vomiting on Feb. 10th, 1972, gradually became lethargic.
  • (15) Infected dogs were anorectic and lethargic and developed cutaneous lesions characteristic of Rocky Mountain spotted fever, including petechia, ecchymosis, edema, and necrosis.
  • (16) Lunch had an effect on mood, with subjects feeling more lethargic, feeble, clumsy, muzzy, dreamy, bored and mentally slow after the meal.
  • (17) Ataxia was not prominent in animals affected with transmissible mink encephalopathy; these animals gradually became more and more lethargic.
  • (18) On this day, though, the atmosphere became increasingly lethargic as the game wound down and Chelsea went out of the cup.
  • (19) This was one of their most convincing performances of the season, although it must be said that an uncharacteristically lethargic Everton contributed to their own downfall.
  • (20) These animals became lethargic, slouched and developed dyspnoea which became progressively more severe during the course of the study.

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