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 Definitions of COMA  [ˈkoʊ mə]  

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Definition of 'COMA' Random House Webster's College Dictionary 

1. (n.) coma
a state of prolonged unconsciousness, including a lack of response to stimuli, from which it is impossible to rouse a person.

2. (n.) coma
the nebulous envelope around the nucleus of a comet.

3.  coma
a monochromatic aberration of a lens or other optical system in which the image from a point source cannot be focused.

4.  coma
a tuft of hairs on a seed or a terminal cluster of leaves or bracts, as on a stem.

Etymology:  (1660–70; < L: hair < Gk kómē)

Definition of 'COMA' Princeton's WordNet 

1. (noun) coma, comatoseness
a state of deep and often prolonged unconsciousness; usually the result of disease or injury

2. (noun) coma
(botany) a usually terminal tuft of bracts (as in the pineapple) or tuft of hairs (especially on certain seeds)

3. (noun) coma
(astronomy) the luminous cloud of particles surrounding the frozen nucleus of a comet; forms as the comet approaches the sun and is warmed


Definition of 'COMA' Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary 

1. (noun) coma
a long period of being unconscious because of serious illness or injury
She had been in a coma for three months.


Definition of 'COMA' Webster Dictionary 

1. (noun) COMA
a state of profound insensibility from which it is difficult or impossible to rouse a person. See Carus

2. (noun) COMA
the envelope of a comet; a nebulous covering, which surrounds the nucleus or body of a comet

3. (noun) COMA
a tuft or bunch, -- as the assemblage of branches forming the head of a tree; or a cluster of bracts when empty and terminating the inflorescence of a plant; or a tuft of long hairs on certain seeds


Definition of 'COMA' U.S. National Library of Medicine 

1.  COMA
A profound state of unconsciousness associated with depressed cerebral activity from which the individual cannot be aroused. Coma generally occurs when there is dysfunction or injury involving both cerebral hemispheres or the brain stem RETICULAR FORMATION.


Translation of 'COMA' Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary 

Sense: a long-continuing unconscious state
He was in a coma for several days after the accident.

Afrikaans flag Afrikaans: koma Arabic flag Arabic: غَيْبوبَه، فُقْدان الذّاك Bulgarian flag Bulgarian: кома
Brazilian flag Brazilian: coma Czech flag Czech: kóma German flag German: das Koma
Danish flag Danish: coma Greek flag Greek: κώμα Spanish flag Spanish: coma
Estonian flag Estonian: kooma Farsi flag Farsi: اغما Finnish flag Finnish: kooma
French flag French: coma Hebrew flag Hebrew: תַרדֶמֶת Hindi flag Hindi: निश्चेतना
Croatian flag Croatian: koma Hungarian flag Hungarian: kóma Indonesian flag Indonesian: koma
Icelandic flag Icelandic:  Italian flag Italian: coma Japanese flag Japanese: こん睡状態
Korean flag Korean: 혼수상태 Lithuanian flag Lithuanian: koma Latvian flag Latvian: koma
Malay flag Malay: koma Dutch flag Dutch: coma Norwegian flag Norwegian: koma, dyp bevisstløshet
Polish flag Polish: letarg,śpiączka Persian flag Persian: اغما Pashto flag Pashto: كوما ، بې حالى
Portuguese flag Portuguese: coma Romanian flag Romanian: comă Russian flag Russian: кома
Slovak flag Slovak: kóma Slovenian flag Slovenian: koma Serbian flag Serbian: koma
Swedish flag Swedish: koma Thai flag Thai: สภาพไม่รู้สึกตัวของผู้ป่ว Turkish flag Turkish: koma
Taiwanese flag Taiwanese: 昏迷 Ukrainian flag Ukrainian: кома Urdu flag Urdu: طویل بے ہوشی
Vietnamese flag Vietnamese: sự hôn mê Chinese flag Chinese: 昏迷

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