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US
/ˈkoʊmə/
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[ UK /kˈəʊmɐ/ ]
[ UK /kˈəʊmɐ/ ]
NOUN
- (botany) a usually terminal tuft of bracts (as in the pineapple) or tuft of hairs (especially on certain seeds)
- a state of deep and often prolonged unconsciousness; usually the result of disease or injury
- (astronomy) the luminous cloud of particles surrounding the frozen nucleus of a comet; forms as the comet approaches the sun and is warmed
How To Use coma In A Sentence
- Two workboats, ancient battered things with rusting plates, shouldered into it from either side like a couple of drunks supporting a comatose companion.
- Ingundis; and Leovigild, whose two sons, Hermenegild and Recared, were the issue of a former marriage.] [Footnote 128: Iracundiae furore succensa, adprehensam per comam capitis puellam in terram conlidit, et diu calcibus verberatam, ac sanguins cruentatam, jussit exspoliari, et piscinae immergi. History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 3
- He was eighty years old and in a coma when his horse won the Hambletonian Stakes, the supreme prize. Celebrities
- On admission, the patient was acidotic, and he rapidly became comatose.
- Objective To study the effects of retinoic acid on the differentiation of human rhabdomyosarcoma cells and on the expression of myogenic regulatory factor (MRF).
- Coagulopathy/hemorrhage: fresh frozen plasma, possibly vitamin K-phytonadione I.V. Hypoglycemia: Dextrose 25g I.V. (with coma, seizures, or change in mental status) Aspirin: effects, poisoning
- His range of effects is unusually eloquent; there is something of the monoprint to them, as well as elements of the Surrealist techniques of decalcomania and frottage.
- Glaucoma is more common in old age, and happens when the optic nerve in the eye is damaged.
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- Important negative prognostic factors in both conditions include patients older than 65 years, hypotension, and coma.