vegetative state, the patient is classified as being in a persistent vegetative state (PVS). This diagnosis is classified as a permanent vegetative state...

Look up vegetative in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Vegetative describes vegetation. Vegetative may also refer to: Vegetative reproduction, a type of...

conscious state or MCS is a disorder of consciousness distinct from persistent vegetative state and locked-in syndrome. Unlike persistent vegetative state, patients...

who awoke from coma-like states, such as a persistent vegetative state, minimally conscious state, catatonic stupor, or locked-in syndrome after a lengthy...

for 221 days due to a brain hemorrhage. He was then in a persistent vegetative state and unable to speak. He was eventually released from the hospital,...

December 3, 1963 – March 31, 2005), a woman in an irreversible persistent vegetative state. Schiavo's husband and legal guardian argued that Schiavo would not...

arousal. This category generally includes minimally conscious state and persistent vegetative state, but sometimes also includes the less severe locked-in syndrome...

the vocal cords themselves may not be paralysed. Unlike persistent vegetative state, in which the upper portions of the brain are damaged and the lower...

some progress to a vegetative state or a minimally conscious state, and others die. Some patients who have entered a vegetative state go on to regain a...

while on a crash diet and lapsed into a coma, followed by a persistent vegetative state. After doctors refused the request of her parents (Joseph and Julia...

attention in a court case on euthanasia after spending over 41 years in a vegetative state as a result of a sexual assault. In 1973, while working as a junior...

when the surrounding vegetative cell is degraded. Endospores are resistant to most agents that would normally kill the vegetative cells they formed from...

care physician, concludes that she is in an irreversible persistent vegetative state (PVS). The Schindlers (Terri's parents) actively encourage Michael...

development in early childhood, followed by rapid degeneration to a vegetative state. The other forms of ALD vary in timing of onset and in clinical severity...

pencil is horizontal or vertical. Patients who are clinically in a vegetative state (show no awareness of their surroundings) are found to have no awareness...

in Tübingen. Kretschmer was the first to describe the persistent vegetative state which has also been called Kretschmer's syndrome. Another medical term...

involuntary activity necessary to sustain life. It differs from persistent vegetative state, in which the person is alive and some autonomic functions remain....

seizures she has had since she was two months old. Despite being in a vegetative state, the woman can experience pain and respond with facial gestures and...

lifespans of those who were unconscious, minimally unconscious, and in a vegetative state were short as they were unable to receive assistance with basic needs...

result of the injuries he sustained, Colón fell into a persistent vegetative state where he no longer could move or talk. As of July 2021, 6 years after...

disaster. He suffered severe brain damage that left him in a persistent vegetative state as a consequence of which the hospital, with the support of his parents...

of Fortune. Sunny von Bülow lived almost 28 years in a persistent vegetative state, from December 1980 until her death in a New York City nursing home...

brain injury and is a major cause of unconsciousness and persistent vegetative state after severe head trauma. It occurs in about half of all cases of severe...

McMurphy is brought back in. He has received a lobotomy, and is now in a vegetative state, rendering him silent and motionless. The Chief smothers McMurphy with...

are awake, in REM sleep or in a locked-in state than in those who are in deep sleep or in a vegetative state, making it potentially useful as a quantitative...

Debbie to perform a Mahakala Mahayana Pooja for Srini, who lies in a vegetative state under Dr. Richard's care. Raghu obtains a court order for Srini's passive...

Science, showing that some patients thought to be in a persistent vegetative state are in fact fully aware and (shown subsequently) able to communicate...

precepts, someone who is in a vegetative state is neither dead nor alive, but instead is said to be in some form of obscure state of mind and still a living...

charge of subversion. In June 2017, he was released by North Korea in a vegetative state and died soon after his parents requested his feeding tube be removed...

June 1989. Retrieved 31 January 2016. Patrick Binder remains in a vegetative state, said David Nichols, a Johns Hopkins Children's Center pediatric anesthesiologist...