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

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,...

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

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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

and is devastated to learn that she had a stroke, leaving her in a vegetative state. Oz refuses to accept this and pleads for his mother to claim that...

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

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

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...

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...

facilities are managed. Other well-known pregnancies involving sexually abused vegetative and comatose female patients have also been reported in New York in 1996...

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

an alleged insulin overdose in 1980 that left her in a persistent vegetative state for the rest of her life. On appeal, both convictions were reversed...

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...

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

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...

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

consciousness. Ventricular tachycardia may lead to coma and persistent vegetative state due to lack of blood and oxygen to the brain. Ventricular tachycardia...