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Collins Thesaurus of the English Language – Complete and Unabridged 2nd Edition. 2002 © HarperCollins Publishers 1995, 2002

Synonyms for coma

a state of deep and often prolonged unconsciousness

(botany) a usually terminal tuft of bracts (as in the pineapple) or tuft of hairs (especially on certain seeds)

(astronomy) the luminous cloud of particles surrounding the frozen nucleus of a comet

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Aetiology of coma: In the present study, the aetiology of coma was found to be as follows.
Shane said: "Harri is still stable, but he has an infection which is stopping the doctors waking hin up from the coma.
A spokesman said: "The patient was assessed by the GNAAS paramedic and doctor team before being placed in an induced coma and flown to the Royal Victoria Infirmary for ongoing treatment."
"The GNAAS doctor-led trauma team induced her into a coma before flying her to James Cook University Hospital in Middlesbrough."
The brain scans showed that coordination of activity between two particular areas of the brain was much different between the patients who later recovered from a coma and those who didn't.
Daniel was in a coma at the University Hospital of Wales in Cardiff for nine days, having suffered the brain injury and a haemorrhage.
The galaxies aren't scattered around the cluster haphazardly, as would be expected if they were new arrivals falling into Coma randomly.
In the prose style and formal structure of Induced Coma, Jaffe extends his characteristic use of economy and constraint as an immanent critique of what he considers the dangerous brevity now endemic to today's vehicles of vernacular communication.
Schumacher's condition stabilized after he was placed in the coma. Late last month, doctors began the process of withdrawing sedatives to try to wake him up.
These observations included total cometary magnitude (m1) as well as coma size and degree of condensation (DC).
TEHRAN (FNA)- A team of astronomers has discovered enormous arms of hot gas in the Coma cluster of galaxies by using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and ESA's XMM-Newton.
By Sports Reporter/ Doha Frenchman Jean-Louis Schlesser, Spaniard Marc Coma and Pole Rafal Sonik claimed outright victories in their respective car, motorcycle and quad categories of the four-day 2013 Sealine Cross-Country Rally, which finished in southern Qatar yesterday.
Given the apprehensions and acrimony surrounding health-care reform, remaking "Coma"--the Robin Cook novel writer-director Michael Crichton turned into a reasonably entertaining and prescient 1978 thriller, with the creepy theme of harvesting patients for organs--certainly seems timely.