0 a state in which a person is unconscious and cannot be woken, caused by damage to the brain after an accident or illness:
1 a state of being unconscious, in which a person cannot be waked, usually caused by illness or injury:
It is a syndrome lying on a continuum between full consciousness and deep coma.
The level of consciousness, the position on the continuum between full consciousness and deep coma, is determined by the alertness of the individual.
These vary from a delirium, causing more or less anxiety, to definite meninjtis producing rapid and stupor and ultimately, coma.
Metastatic cancer in-uences coma only indirectly, through brain tumour and increased total serum calcium.
He lapsed brief ly into a coma and died.
He remained in a coma for 16 months.
He claims that a constantly neutral life may be as bad as a life lived in coma throughout.
Conversely, those not in coma with more s uperficial bleeds may have more t o gain f rom a surgical opinion.
