Coma

Definition: Coma

Coma

Noun

1. A state of deep and often prolonged unconsciousness; usually the result of disease or injury.

2. A usually terminal tuft of hairs especially on a seed.

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

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Date "coma" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1861. (references)

Etymology: Coma \Co"ma\, noun. [Latin, hair, from Greek ko`mh.]. (Websters 1913)

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COMA

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Synonym: Coma

Inactivity

Sleep, slumber; sound sleep, heavy sleep, balmy sleep; Morpheus; Somnus; coma, trance, ecstasis, dream, hibernation, nap, doze, snooze, siesta, wink of sleep, forty winks, snore; hypnology.

Insensibility

Torpor, torpidity; obstupefaction, lethargy, coma, trance, vegetative state; sleep; suspended animation; stupor, stupefaction; paralysis, palsy; numbness; (physical insensibility).

Physical Insensibility

Noun: insensibility, physical insensibility; obtuseness. Adjective: palsy, paralysis, paraesthesia, anaesthesia; sleep; hemiplegia, motor paralysis; vegetable state; coma.

Crosswords: Coma

French (coma, shock), Italian (coma), Latin (hair of the head, leaves, rays of light, stalk), Portuguese (coma, eat), Scottish (indifferent, regardless : coma-co-dhiùbh), Spanish (coma, comma, point).

It took a coma to wake me up. (While You Were Sleeping; writing credit: Daniel G. Sullivan and Fredric LeBow.)

Well, Donnie's in a coma, he had a very bad acid experience. (Manhattan; writing credit: Woody Allen ; Marshall Brickman)

Until I was in a coma for six years. (The Dead Zone; writing credit: Aleksandar Djordjevic)

You've had icing enough to put you in a coma. (The Gift; writing credit: Billy Bob Thornton; Tom Epperson)

Y'know, one of these days, you're going to wake up in a coma. (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer)

Karl's In a Coma (2000)

C'era un cinese in coma (2000)

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Books

• Disorders of Mental Status: Dementia, Encephalopathy, Coma, Syncope (reference)

• Girlfriend in a Coma (reference)

• Coma and Impaired Consciousness: A Clinical Perspective (reference)

• Adelgace pronto, coma mucho. (Get thin, eat a lot ) (reference)

• Coma laudanum : poèmes (reference)

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Theater & Movies

• Coma (reference)

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Music

• Coma Divine [LIVE] (reference)

• Coma Imprint (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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Lo que usted come es vital para usted-- y para su bebé. : Si está embarazada, coma una buena variedad de alimentos. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Ahorre, coma sabroso Y Alimente Bien A Su Familia! : Busquela En Su Tienda. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

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Health

A coma rarely lasts more than 2 to 4 weeks. (references)

A coma is a profound or deep state of unconsciousness. (references)

Patients recovering from coma require close medical supervision. (references)

Business

Unlike in the United States, which imposes a federally mandated RDA on nutritional supplements, the United Kingdom has no national RDA. In light of recent scares regarding safe upper limits for such vitamins as B6, A, and C, the U.K. government's Committee on the Medical Aspects of Food and Nutrition Policy (COMA, which will be renamed the Scientific Advisory Committee on Nutrition, or, SACN, in 2000) established an advisory group to recommend maximum daily allowances for vitamins and minerals. (references)

Human Rights

Turkey

He was rescued and recovered after being in a coma for 3 days. (references)

Israel and the occupied territories

While en route, Awad lapsed into a coma and was pronounced dead on arrival at the hospital. (references)

Jordan

Shalback was in a coma when he arrived at the hospital; he died from his injuries 10 days later. (references)

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Expressions using "coma": be in a coma ♦ Coma Berenices ♦ deep coma ♦ diabetic coma ♦ fall into a coma ♦ Glasgow Coma Scale ♦ go into a coma ♦ hepatic coma ♦ Hyperglycemic Hyperosmolar Nonketotic Coma ♦ inner coma ♦ inner part of the coma ♦ insulin coma ♦ Kussmaul's coma ♦ slip into a coma. Additional references.

Beginning with "coma": coma-like, coma-type.

Ending with "coma": near-coma, semi-coma.

Albanian

komë, humbje e thellë e ndjenjave. (various references)

Arabic 

‏غيبوبة (shock, stupefaction, stupor, zombie), ‏سبات (lethargy, sleep, sopor, stupor, torpor), ‏زغب (fluff, fuzz, hairy, nap, pile, plumule, pubescence, quilt), ‏ذؤابة المذنب. (various references)

Bulgarian 

кома (unconsciousness), глава на комета, влакнест семенен придатък, несиметрична аберация. (various references)

Chinese 

昏迷 (Comatose, Comatous, stupor). (various references)

Czech

kóma, hluboké bezvìdomí. (various references)

Danish

coma, koma, halo (glory, halo). (various references)

Dutch

coma (deep coma, deep lethargy, halo). (various references)

Farsi 

اغماء , بیهشی . (various references)

Finnish

syvä tajuttomuus, rengasilmiö (halo), kooma, koma, halo (halo). (various references)

French

coma. (various references)

German

koma. (various references)

Greek 

κώμα. (various references)

Hebrew 

תר�"מת. (various references)

Hungarian

kóma (dead faint), ájulás (collapse, faint, fainting, faintness, swoon, syncope). (various references)

Indonesian

keadaan pingsan. (various references)

Italian

coma. (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

昏睡 (dead sleep, lethargy, stupor). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

�"�"すい (dead sleep, lethargy, stupor), コマ (frame in a film or video). (various references)

Manx

tappag (cow-lick, crest, forelock, tuft, tuft of feathers), taaue-neeal (trance). (various references)

Pig Latin

omacay

Portuguese

coma (eat). (various references)

Romanian

comã. (various references)

Russian 

кома. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

rep (end, rear end, tail, tail end, trail), pramen (lock, patch, tress, tussock, wisp), koma. (various references)

Spanish

coma (comma, point). (various references)

Swedish

koma, dvala (apathy, dormancy, doze, lethargy, stupor, torpidity, torpor). (various references)

Thai

ส� าพไม่รู้สึกตัวของผู้ป่วย, กลุ่มเมฆล้อมรอบส่วนหัวของ�"าวหาง. (various references)

Turkish

püskül (beard, fringe, tag, tassel, thrum, tuft), kuyrukluyıldız saçı, koma, baygınlık (faint, fainting, insensibility, stupor, swoon, syncopal, syncope, unconsciousness). (various references)

Ukrainian

чубок (bang, cirrus), крона (bull, crown, crown-piece, krone, leafage), оболонка (capsule, carcass, casing, casket, covering, envelope, membrane, operculum, rind, sheath, shell, skin, tunic). (various references)

lethargus. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "coma": comade, comae, comake, comaker, comakers, comakes, comaking, comal, comanage, comanaged, comanagement, comanagements, comanager, comanagers, comanages, comanaging, comas, comate, comates, comatic, comatik, comatiks, comatose, comatula, comatulae. (additional references)

Words ending with "coma": carcinosarcoma, fibrosarcoma, glaucoma, leucoma, lymphosarcoma, osteosarcoma, rhabdomyosarcoma, sarcoma, semicoma. (additional references)

Words containing "coma": carcinosarcomas, carcinosarcomata, cocomat, cocomats, decalcomania, decalcomanias, fibrosarcomas, fibrosarcomata, glaucomas, gynecomastia, gynecomastias, leucomas, lymphosarcomas, lymphosarcomata, osteosarcomas, osteosarcomata, rhabdomyosarcomas, rhabdomyosarcomata, sarcomas, sarcomata, sarcomatoses, sarcomatosis, sarcomatous, semicomas. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Coma" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: accomo, acoma, Acuma, aoma, boma, Bomza, caama, caja, cama, Camag, camma, cbm, ccma, Ccmi, cdma, ceam, Cemat, Cemc, cemi, cena, cfm, choam, choma, Chomba, Ciam, cina, cma, Cmaj, cme, cmea, cmi, cmome, cmos, cmu, cmw, coa, coam, coav, Coba, cofa, coga, cohab, colmap, Comac, comae, comag, Comair, comaq, comar, Comark, comaz, Comba, comc, comdap, comeh, comfar, comg, comha, comi, comio, comla, Commg, commi, commy, comod, compa, coms, comt, comtat, comul, comum, comun, comy, cona, Conae, Conaf, conam, conat, conay, coni, conna, conq, consa, conta, Conza, cooga, coomi, copa, Corma, corman, cosa, cosm, Cosma, Cosme, Cota, coum, Coumba, cova, cowa, coxa, coyme, cpm, Cpma, croam, csma, cuma, cume, cumi, cumme, Cuna, dcom, ecom, Fcmo, gompa, icuma, Koma, komai, komal, kome, komma, komme, Komo, Kouma, ooam, pcdma, rcvma, scoma, shoma. (additional references)

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: cam, mac, moa, moc, oca.

-2 letters: am, ma, mo, om.

+1 letter: cameo, campo, carom, comae, comal, comas, comma, macho, macon, macro, mocha.

+2 letters: anomic, atomic, caeoma, cameos, camion, campos, caroms, carrom, chroma, clamor, comade, comake, comate, combat, commas, copalm, cowman, crambo, macaco, machos, macons, macron, macros, manioc, mascon, mascot, mobcap, mochas, modica, mosaic, mucosa, oomiac, pomace, socman, tombac, tomcat, vomica.

+3 letters: aciform, acromia, acronym, ammonic, amoebic, anosmic, apomict, armlock, atomics, cabomba, caeomas, calomel, cameoed, camions, camorra, camphol, camphor, campion, campong, caromed, carroms, cembalo, chamiso, chamois, chamoix, chromas, clamors, clamour, coadmit, coaming, cocomat, cocoyam, comaker, comakes, comates, comatic, comatik, combats, comical, comitia, command, commata, compact, company, compare, compart, compass, comrade, copalms, coremia, crambos, crampon, czardom, domical, encomia, hammock, leucoma, limacon, lockram, macacos, machzor, macrons, mammock, manioca, maniocs, marcato, mascons, mascots, masonic, mattock, minorca, mobcaps, mochila, monacid, monadic, monarch, morceau, mosaics, mucosae, mucosal, mucosas, nomadic, nomarch, oghamic, oilcamp, oomiack, oomiacs, osmatic, pomaces, potamic, romance, sarcoma, scotoma, sockman, somatic, stomach, tomback, tombacs, tomcats, unmacho, vomicae.