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coma

In medicine, a state of deep unconsciousness from which the subject cannot be roused. Possible causes include head injury, brain disease, liver failure, cerebral haemorrhage, and drug overdose.

coma

In optics, one of the geometrical aberrations of a lens or mirror, in which rays from an object not in the centre of the field of view make a comet-shaped spot on the image plane instead of meeting at a point.

coma

In astronomy, hazy cloud of gas and dust that surrounds the nucleus of a comet.



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It was not long before they were reduced to a coma of hunger.
Sudden illness attended by coma attacked population this morning.
As he danced among his naked fellow savages, the firelight gleaming against his great, rolling muscles, the personification of physical perfection and strength, the woman who loved him lay thin and emaciated in the last coma that precedes death by thirst and starvation.
 
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