vegetative

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Vegetative states were considered permanent after three months if the injury was caused by oxygen deprivation, or one year if it was caused by blunt trauma.

From New York Times • Dec. 1, 2011

I Question not my Corporeal or Vegetative Eye any more than I would Question a Window concerning a Sight.

From Time Magazine Archive

At a later period the Vegetative Soul has become a Plastic Force, and still later, a Vital Principle.

From Auguste Comte and Positivism by Mill, John Stuart

This Cerebro-Nervous graft perishes only because the Vegetative body on which it is installed has come to the end of its power to sustain the life of the Nervous organism picketed upon it.

From Feminism and Sex-Extinction by Kenealy, Arabella

These principles, when condensed and limited so as to be seen by us, may take the form of Reason, Emotion, Energy and Sensation, or, to give them Boehme's names, Contraction, Expansion, Rotation, and Vegetative life.

From Mysticism in English Literature by Spurgeon, Caroline F. E.