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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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The 1968 Harvard Ad Hoc Committee for Irreversible Coma published criteria that held that any organ that no longer functions, or has the possibility of functioning again, is, for all practical purposes, if not in reality, dead.
In another, an impaired anesthesiologist on drugs was finally exposed after causing two women to lapse into irreversible comas.
Dissolved in liquid or pudding, a 10,000-milligram dose of the barbiturate induces a deep, irreversible coma within minutes; death follows soon after.
 
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