Comatose

Definition: Comatose

Comatose

Adjective

1. Relating to or associated with a coma; "comatose breathing"; "comatose state".

2. In a state of deep and usually prolonged unconsciousness; unable to respond to external stimuli; "a comatose patient".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "comatose" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1897. (references)

Health

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonym: Comatose

Inactivity

Sleeping; Verb: asleep; fast asleep, dead asleep, sound asleep; in a sound sleep; sound as a top, dormant, comatose; in the arms of Morpheus, in the lap of Morpheus.

Insensibility

Apathetic; leuco-, phlegmatic; dull, frigid; cold blooded, cold hearted; cold as charity; flat, maudlin, obtuse, inert, supine, sluggish, torpid, torpedinous, torporific; sleepy; (inactive); languid, half-hearted, tame; numbed; comatose; anaesthetic; stupefied, chloroformed, drugged, stoned; palsy-stricken.

Physical Insensibility

Adjective: insensible, unfeeling, senseless, impercipient, callous, thick-skinned, pachydermatous; hard, hardened; case hardened; proof, obtuse, dull; anaesthetic; comatose, paralytic, palsied, numb, dead.

Crosswords: Comatose

Books

• Comatose Christianity : a wake-up call for Christians (reference)

• The comatose kids (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Comatose [CD-SINGLE] (reference)

• Comatose Non Reaction: The Thwarted Pop Career (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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Health

Eventually, patients become unable to stand or eat, and they die in a helpless comatose state from 6 to 12 months after the onset of illness. (references)

In severe cases of anoxia and hypoxia, from any cause, the patient is often stuperous or comatose (in a state of unconsciousness) for periods ranging from hours to days, weeks, or months. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Ending with "comatose": semi-comatose.

Albanian

në komë. (various references)

Arabic 

‏غيبوبي, ‏سباتي (carotin, lethargic). (various references)

Bulgarian 

в безсъзнание (insensate, out, senseless, unconscious), летаргичен (lethargic, quiescent). (various references)

Chinese 

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

Czech

komatózní. (various references)

Danish

comatoes, komatoes, komatøs, komatøs. (various references)

Dutch

comateus. (various references)

Farsi 

اغماء(طب), بیهوش (Unintelligent), بیهش . (various references)

French

comateux. (various references)

German

komatös. (various references)

Greek 

κωματώδης. (various references)

Hungarian

kábult (dazed, dizzy, dopey, dopy, numb, numbed, slap happy, stunned, stupefied, stupid), aluszékony (sleepy, somnolent). (various references)

Italian

comatoso. (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

植物人�" (comatose person, human vegetable), 昏睡状態 (comatose state, lethargic state). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

しょくぶつに�"�'�" (comatose person, human vegetable), �"�"すいじょうたい (comatose state, lethargic state). (various references)

Manx

taaueagh (nerveless), gyn enney (incommunicado, senseless, unidentified). (various references)

Pig Latin

omatosecay

Portuguese

comatoso. (various references)

Russian 

коматозный. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

komatozan. (various references)

Spanish

comatoso. (various references)

Swedish

komatös. (various references)

Thai

เฉื่อยชา (lethargic, logy), ที่อยู่ในส� าพไม่รู้สึกตัว. (various references)

Turkish

komada, baygın (faint, fainted, heavy, insensible, languid, languishing, languorous, senseless, unconscious). (various references)

Ukrainian

коматозний. (various references)

Derivations

Words containing "comatose": sarcomatoses. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Comatose" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Chomutove, Cimarosa, comatosed, comotose, Comtois, Comtoise, cosmatos, komato. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: comates, osteoma, scotoma.

-2 letters: cameos, comate, comets, comose, comtes, costae, mascot.

-3 letters: acmes, ascot, atoms, cameo, cames, caste, cates, cesta, coast, coats, comae, comas, comes, comet, comte, coots, coset, costa, cotes, escot, maces, mates, meats, moats, moose, moots, moste, motes, satem, scoot, smote, steam, stoae, stoma, taces, tacos, tames, teams, toeas, tomes.

-4 letters: aces.

+2 letters: coelomates, motorcades, schoolmate.

+3 letters: acoelomates, amoebocytes, compensator, homeostatic, mycetozoans, ostracoderm, schoolmates.

+4 letters: accommodates, ascomycetous, commemorates, commentators, commonalties, compensation, compensators, compensatory, craniotomies, diatomaceous, embrocations, macrocytoses, macropterous, mesothoraces, mesothoracic, mycetomatous, nomenclators, osteomalacia, osteosarcoma, ostracoderms, proctodaeums, sarcomatoses, schoolmaster, tracheostomy.

+5 letters: actinomycoses, anisometropic, autoeroticism, blastomycoses, chromatolyses, cleistogamous, climatologies, commemorators, commendations, commiseration, commonalities, commonwealths, compassionate, compellations, compensations, complexations, concomitances, condemnations, conglomerates, contemplators, domestication, gonadectomies, homoscedastic, mastoidectomy, mucocutaneous, mycetophagous, olfactometers, osteomalacias, osteosarcomas, ovariectomies, postvasectomy, prostatectomy, schoolmasters, thoracotomies, tracheotomies.