[
UK
/kˈəʊmɐtˌəʊz/
]
[ US /ˈkoʊməˌtoʊs/ ]
[ US /ˈkoʊməˌtoʊs/ ]
ADJECTIVE
-
in a state of deep and usually prolonged unconsciousness; unable to respond to external stimuli
a comatose patient -
relating to or associated with a coma
comatose state
comatose breathing
How To Use comatose 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.
- In folklore, zombies are portrayed as innocent victims who are raised in a comatose trance from their graves by malevolent sorcerers.
- The right side of my brain had been so severely bruised that I was comatose for a month.
- He found her comatose with evidence of decortication, a condition relating to derangement of the cortex of the brain causing a physical posture in which the upper extremities are flexed and the lower extremities are extended. Law In The Health and Human Services
- While he lies comatose, she tells him the story of his life. Times, Sunday Times
- Guilt-ridden Empress (Kebbel), observed to spend his life, administers a coercive and inexperienced cocktail of drugs to the comatoseness victim. Planet Malaysia
- The right side of my brain had been so severely bruised that I was comatose for a month.
- As hypoxemia supervenes, the patient becomes comatose and death may result from ventricular fibrillation or asystole.
- No clinical signs of toxicity were observed, but the patient was comatose.
- Some 20 minutes later he returned, accompanied by a shaken overdose victim who had some 15 minutes earlier been comatose and blue.