How To Use Comatose In A Sentence
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Two workboats, ancient battered things with rusting plates, shouldered into it from either side like a couple of drunks supporting a comatose companion.
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In folklore, zombies are portrayed as innocent victims who are raised in a comatose trance from their graves by malevolent sorcerers.
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The right side of my brain had been so severely bruised that I was comatose for a month.
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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
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While he lies comatose, she tells him the story of his life.
Times, Sunday Times
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Guilt-ridden Empress (Kebbel), observed to spend his life, administers a coercive and inexperienced cocktail of drugs to the comatoseness victim.
Planet Malaysia
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The right side of my brain had been so severely bruised that I was comatose for a month.
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As hypoxemia supervenes, the patient becomes comatose and death may result from ventricular fibrillation or asystole.
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No clinical signs of toxicity were observed, but the patient was comatose.
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Some 20 minutes later he returned, accompanied by a shaken overdose victim who had some 15 minutes earlier been comatose and blue.
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The doctors told them the minute they went in to see her that comatose patients weren't able to talk, but they could hear.
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Drugs of another type are used as respiratory stimulants in deeply comatose patients or those with respiratory failure.
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An hour later a deputy brought Daniel and his comatose cellmate a brown-bag breakfast.
THE ASSOCIATE
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Constant infusions may be useful in patients with constant dyspnea or patients who are comatose.
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As his government went from indolent to comatose, he made unprecedented use of the government jet as a taxi back home.
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She's stable, which gives her a pretty good chance of coming out without much harm, but it's always hard to tell with comatose patients.
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For the life of me, I cannot imagine any non-comatose thinking person in the 1930s not seriously contemplating a socialist solution to capitalism's self-induced catastrophe.
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Occasionally, intoxicated patients may be neither comatose nor organic but have initial symptoms compatible with a psychosis.
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Pyramidal nervous system signs are often prominent, especially in the comatose patient.
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They are using a type of magnetic resonance imaging to demonstrate consciousness in comatose patients.
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Surviving in a comatose state, his mind is still alert and active.
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By midnight I was virtually comatose.
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Grandpa lies comatose on the sofa.
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He may have the morals of an alley cat but raping a semi-comatose girl was beyond him.
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It was once a semicomatose retirement haven.
Times, Sunday Times
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That is potentially dangerous language because it implies too strongly that fetuses and comatose persons, lacking humanhood in Fletcher's sense of the term, lack a claim to life or are reduced to merely animal or object status.
Death, Legal and Illegal
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On admission, the patient was acidotic, and he rapidly became comatose.
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Somebody sneaks in and chloroforms you, or sprays knock-out gas under your door, and while you are comatose and unresisting, your worldly goods are stripped.
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Either ipecac or apomorphine is indicated unless the patient is comatose, seizing, and/or has lost the gag reflex.
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When a ventilator is removed from an apnoeic comatose patient, it is the disease or injury that causes the loss of the patient's ability to breathe spontaneously.
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The comatose German economy was flatlining at 0.4% growth, with France faring only a little better at 1%.
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Johnny Got His Gun, wherein a maimed soldier, rigidly comatose, is agonizingly aware of his surroundings while utterly unable to communicate even a hint of his own sentience to those around his bed.
Nasty, Brutish, and Short
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The doctors revived the comatose man
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Since then, there has been a running drug scare, complete with pics of comatose teens and tales of deathbed agonies.
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As hypoxemia supervenes, the patient becomes comatose and death may result from ventricular fibrillation or asystole.
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The patient remained comatose and was transported to the computed tomographic scanner.
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Almost comatose, I was sent back to the relaxation room where my partner, also in a semi-vegetative state, was resting after undergoing balneotherapy.
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They are using a type of magnetic resonance imaging to demonstrate consciousness in comatose patients.
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He sounded extremely relaxed, almost comatose.
Times, Sunday Times
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That's when his true evil became apparent to me; my own precious breathing was steady and deep, the peaceful inhalation and equally peaceful exhalation of the blessed comatose.
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The cousin's distraught mum arrived just as her comatose son was discovered.
The Sun
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On admission, the patient was acidotic, and he rapidly became comatose.
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She was more than five times over the legal drink-drive limit, and had enough alcohol in her blood to make her comatose and depress her respiratory system.
Times, Sunday Times
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In the emergency room he appeared deeply comatose: his eyes were closed and he did not react to noxious stimuli.
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A white shirt front flitted, cuffs reached down to the comatose Wilshere.
THE COMPANY OF STRANGERS
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As soon as Mr. Plumb heard of this he declared that the cow-doctor was taking the bread out of his mouth, but Ward told him if that was the case he ought to have another drink, and after having it he became comatose and unobstructive.
Godfrey Marten, Undergraduate
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I know what _comatose_ means, and I thought that comatose was a good way to stay until I figured out what was going on.
Who Do You Say I Am
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On one hand, if I become deeply disabled, I trust that my family will do right by me (lucky for me, I do have a family that I can trust here) and will make difficult decisions with my best care in mind (and damnit, they better stop my periods by hook or crook - they cause the most miserable moment of my existence, I have already medically stopped them by conscious choice, and I will come back and haunt from the grave anyone who decides that in order to be a real live comatose woman, I need no brain function but I do need to go back to suffering the week-long monthly evisceration I call my menstrual cycle).
The Ashley Treatment: A Feminist and Disability Rights Issue?
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In the next story, an elderly woman repairs a toy robot collection in the hopes of connecting with her comatose son.
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The town's economy now resembles a comatose patient on a gurney, ready to be wheeled who knows where.
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In order to ensure that all people are protected, as the Republicans say they are concerned with, we are introducing The Terry Schiavo bill, mandating that insurance companies must provide coverage for the helpless people in comatose states for as long as the family desires it.
"That Is Why You Fail"
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They kept complaining about pain and kept getting more and more narcotics in response to their complaints until they were comatose from the drugs.
Medpundit
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For many of the cast members, the show's consistency through the decades has allowed for precisely the sort of security and comfort that their murdering, comatose, back-stabbing, amnesiac, time-travelling characters always found so elusive.
Life After 'Life' Is a Mystery
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Besides the amusing circus and aquatic performances, visitors can have their pictures taken with a well-dressed bear or a large, semi-comatose tiger.
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He was comatose from the raging infection in his left hand and could not tell the compassionate, but practical, pilot who he was or where to take him so they left him at the spring of Asclepios.
The One Handed Rower of Myonnesus « A Fly in Amber
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He is barely alive; his breathing is very slow and shallow, and he is comatose.
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As you'll remember I panned Living Dead Girl because I thought it was sensational and overdone, and now I'm completely underwhelmed (into a near state of comatoseness) by Love You Hate You Miss You.
Tripping Toward Lucidity: Estella's Revenge
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Soon after Marco and Lydia fall in love she is gored by a bull and rendered comatose.
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Coma is a kind of emergency, and its difficult to establish a stable comatose animal model.
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By maintaining activity during anoxia, the crucian carp could be able to seek out oxygen rather than having to wait for it to arrive — the only option for the comatose turtle.
Evolution versus "Intelligent Design" - The Panda's Thumb
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He will then lapse into a semi-comatose condition before dying.
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Whether it be through fever and inflammation, cough and expectoration, nausea and vomiting, fainting and comatose states, and even the variety of emotional and mental states, each symptom represents the best efforts of the bodymind in its effort to fight infection and/or adapt to physical and psychological stresses.
Dana Ullman: Unplugging From Your Medicine Cabinet: Respecting the Body's Intelligence
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It is not a severe attack," my father wrote at the beginning, "yet it is attended by fits of exceeding discomfort, occasional comatoseness, and even delirium to the extent of making the poor child talk in rhythmic measure, like a tragic heroine -- as if the fever lifted her feet off the earth; the fever being seldom dangerous, but is liable to recur on slight occasion hereafter.
Hawthorne and His Circle
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I am almost comatose after my stay here and long to get away.
The Times Literary Supplement
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He had a fever of 105 and was comatose when he arrived at the hospital late in January.
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Patients were excluded if they were comatose, unresponsive, and/or intubated.
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They thought he was an old has-been, that the fever had fuddled his wits, that his weeks of near-starvation had starved his brain-tissue into comatose stasis.
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On the twentieth, sweated all over; apyrexia, dejections bilious; aversion to food, comatose.
Of The Epidemics
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By midnight I was virtually comatose.
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Consciousness ranges from alert to confused to a comatose state in less than 20 percent of patients.
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Erik, when he was moved out of the trauma unit to an acute care floor in the hospital, was put into the room with another comatose patient.
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And I could have gone to the hospital, because their father was there (albeit half-comatose from the stomach flu – I kept shoving phenergan from my own stash down his throat with Gatorade and he stayed home, too), but you know what?
The Very Best Intentions @ Attack of the Redneck Mommy
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Of course Dr. Plimer's book has been pretty thoroughly reviewed by now and it has not stood up well (in fact I would venture that it is currently comatose on the floor from a case of blackdamp!).
Archive 2009-10-01
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On the tenth, no drink taken; comatose, sleep slight; alvine discharges the same; urine abundant, and thickish; when allowed to stand, the sediment farinaceous and white; extremities again cold.
Of The Epidemics
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The right side of my brain had been so severely bruised that I was comatose for a month.
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This was followed by a nonfluent aphasia about a month after the injury, and the patient became progressively more obtunded and comatose.
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They are using a type of magnetic resonance imaging to demonstrate consciousness in comatose patients.
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In the field, a doctor may be called to the aid of a severely ill, comatose patient.
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a comatose patient
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Some human lung diseases such as chronic bronchitis may leave the patient drowsy or even comatose because of the build up of carbon dioxide in the body.
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They kept complaining about pain and kept getting more and more narcotics in response to their complaints until they were comatose from the drugs.
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Now alone in the courtyard except for a comatose cat, Ariela's thoughts turn to the past two years and how her life changed in the flutter of a wing.
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A common misconception is that a patient must be comatose to be diagnosed with myxedema coma.
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He finally stopped, comatose, lying nearly lifeless on the ground.
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A group, National Prayer Movement, has decried what it described as the comatose state of the nation owing to the sickness of President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua, saying the situation is most unfortunate.
Thisday Online
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But seriously, is the story of a traumatized father searching to help his long-term comatose son at a strange clinic where the staff are all lunatics, an area motorcycle gang steals brain fluid, and a child's comic book features rape, murder, and lethal discrimination all that much lighter, bro?
Jack O'Connell
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Somebody sneaks in and chloroforms you, or sprays knock-out gas under your door, and while you are comatose and unresisting, your worldly goods are stripped.
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Slumped on cushions, semicomatose after their evening meal, they congratulate themselves on managing to escape the middle-class ritual.
Times, Sunday Times
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Had you asked him then, he’d certianly have wanted his body treated well while he was out, and you yourself would want the same if you thought you were going to be (temporarily) comatose or in cryostasis.
The Penumbras and Emanations of Property M
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Imprisoned in his body for ten years, Dai Wei is forced to turn inwards and confront his past, and in doing so becomes freer and more alive than the comatose crowds that surround him.
Ma Jian - An interview with author
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An hour later a deputy brought Daniel and his comatose cellmate a brown-bag breakfast.
THE ASSOCIATE
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The right side of my brain had been so severely bruised that I was comatose for a month.
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But when they end to inform him a lesson, he ends up in a comatoseness and practically mentality dead.
Planet Malaysia