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  • adjective Unable to be roused

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un- +‎ rousable

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Examples

  • Booming parades and wailing kids were coming at us hard from every angle, but it didn't matter; the child remained unrousable.

    Suz Redfearn: Cinderella Bitch Slap 2009

  • My mother was drugged out on antihistamines and unrousable.

    How doth the little busy bee ailbhe 2006

  • When Ray returned to the room, Simon was fast asleep in the only bed, and utterly unrousable.

    A Big Boy Did It and Ran Away Brookmyre, Christopher, 1968- 2001

  • When the EMS arrive they find him unrousable, blue and cheyne stoking (a breathing pattern associated with the end stages of dying).

    Women's Bioethics Blog 2008

  • * Encephalopathy grade 0 1 or 2 3 or 4 Ascites None Slight Moderate Serum bilirubin (mg dlÀ1) < 4 4-6 > 6 * 0 ¼ normal; 1 ¼ restlessness 5 Hz waves on EEG; 2 ¼ lethargic, disoriented, asterixis; 3 ¼ somnolent/stuperous rigidity; 4 ¼ unrousable coma (each grade >

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