as in slow
lacking in gaiety, movement, or animation
the city's downtown has been comatose for years
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The standard definition of a comatose patient is someone who is unconscious, is unable to be awakened, and has no signs of awareness or the ability to interact with the environment.
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Jan Claassen, Scientific American, 1 Nov. 2022
Now, a study out this week in The New England Journal of Medicine—the largest of its kind—suggests one in four supposedly comatose patients may actually have at least some awareness.
—Christie Wilcox, science.org, 16 Aug. 2024
Doting on them are two men: nurse Benigno (Javier Cámara), who passes days massaging lotion into the flesh of his comatose ballerina beloved, Alicia (Leonor Watling), and Marco (Darío Grandinetti), the devastated beau of gored bullfighter Lydia (Rosario Flores).
—Indiewire Staff, IndieWire, 12 Aug. 2024
What’s even more surprising is that Arthur is the only one who can see, touch, and communicate with Lauren, whose spirit has detached itself from her comatose body in a nearby hospital.
—Shannon Carlin, TIME, 1 Aug. 2024
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Jan Claassen, Scientific American, 1 Nov. 2022
Now, a study out this week in The New England Journal of Medicine—the largest of its kind—suggests one in four supposedly comatose patients may actually have at least some awareness.
—Christie Wilcox, science.org, 16 Aug. 2024
Doting on them are two men: nurse Benigno (Javier Cámara), who passes days massaging lotion into the flesh of his comatose ballerina beloved, Alicia (Leonor Watling), and Marco (Darío Grandinetti), the devastated beau of gored bullfighter Lydia (Rosario Flores).
—Indiewire Staff, IndieWire, 12 Aug. 2024
What’s even more surprising is that Arthur is the only one who can see, touch, and communicate with Lauren, whose spirit has detached itself from her comatose body in a nearby hospital.
—Shannon Carlin, TIME, 1 Aug. 2024
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