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irreversible coma

NOUN
brain death
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According to local media, he fell into an irreversible coma on Friday at a hospital in the central Italian city of L'Aquila, after requesting that he be given no aggressive medical treatment.

From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2023

In the final days of the campaign, his opponent’s father, Harry Flood Byrd, a longtime senator from Virginia, fell into an irreversible coma.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 4, 2022

He was the medical counsel and adviser to the family of Karen Ann Quinlan, who never regained consciousness after she fell into an irreversible coma in 1975. for several years.

From Salon ● Oct. 29, 2022

Jude Law’s character falls into a supposedly irreversible coma after the events of the first season, so they elect a new pope.

From Slate ● Aug. 29, 2019

The heiress to a $75 million fortune went into a coma in December 1979, from which she recovered, and a second, irreversible coma in December 1980.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 7, 2019


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