coma
Example Sentences
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Imagine going into a coma exactly one year ago and waking up a month later.
He was in a coma for two months and was showing no sign of brain activity until his family took his French horn to his bedside, and he started responding to the music.
From BBC
Hubble observed K1 breaking into at least four separate fragments, each surrounded by its own coma, the cloud of gas and dust that forms around a comet's icy core.
From Science Daily
Mark McNamee did not know he had meningitis until he woke up in hospital after being in an induced coma.
From BBC
He was in an induced coma for five days following the collision.
From Los Angeles Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
