coma

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BELGRADE, Serbia - A Serbian basketball player who fled the United States after a bar brawl that left a fellow student in a coma was arrested Tuesday in Belgrade, police said.

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  1. noun A state of deep, often prolonged unconsciousness, usually the result of injury, disease, or poison, in which an individual is incapable of sensing or responding to external stimuli and internal needs.
  2. noun Astronomy The nebulous luminescent cloud containing the nucleus and constituting the major portion of the head of a comet.
  3. noun Botany A usually terminal tuft or cluster, especially a tuft of hairs on a seed, as on a willow or milkseed.
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  • I don't know He dropped off into sleep or a coma, and I began to feel the loss of him already We were back in the waiting room when Mr. Devlin took me aside I didn't have a chance to tell you, and I certainly didn't tell Matt. —  AHMM,December2006
  • The Zombie Master sank into a sleep like a coma, and Millie hovered near him worriedly. —  Castle Roogna
  • The victim of his system was like a paralytic case, eyes open, breathing, organs functioning normally, except that through the early stages the brain was incapable of comprehending what went on, so that the coma was almost complete unconsciousness. —  102 - Mystery Island
  • Charlotte is in a coma, and it has taken this shock to make her see that she's made a mess of her short life, especially the five years she wasted dating the faithless James. —  Independent.ie - Frontpage RSS Feed
  • Although Mackay had shown positive signs after being brought out of a medically induced coma, a few days ago he developed an infection in his bloodstream, and suffered a cardiac arrest.
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  1. Greek kōma, deep sleep.
  2. Latin, hair, from Greek komē.

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  1. from New Latin cōma, from Greek κῶμα, a deep sleep, κοιμᾶν, put to sleep. Cf. cemetery.
  2. from Latin cŏma, from Greek κόμη, the hair of the head. Hence ult. comet.
 

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