See Also: Coma(medicine)
coma(encyclopedia)
coma(2)(dictionary)
coma(1)(dictionary)
Coma(health)
coma(dictionary)
coma vigil(medicine)
uraemic coma(medicine)
Coma, diabetic(health)
coma cast(medicine)

coma(2) (iou)



coma noun2. M17.
[mod. Latin from Greek koma, -mat-, rel. to koite bed, keisthai lie down.]
Medicine. A prolonged state of unconsciousness from which the patient cannot be roused. Formerly also, an unnatural heavy sleep.
Comb.: coma vigil (a) a prolonged state of drowsiness in which the patient nevertheless cannot sleep; (b) a state in typhus fever etc. in which the patient lies unconscious but with eyes wide open.