coma
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About 10 days after the attack, doctors reduced her sedation and she emerged from her coma.
From Barron's ● Aug. 31, 2026
A proposal for the book included his claim that he had been struck by a car as a teenager and remained in a coma for three months.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026
In May 2025 he was placed in an induced coma, rupturing his intestine when he collided with a post during a game against Leicester.
From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2026
It came just months after she was treated in intensive care after being placed in an induced coma following an emergency intestinal surgery.
From Barron's ● Aug. 15, 2026
Monet’s coma deepened, and he never re-, gained consciousness.
From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston
As often as the thought had comae to me I had thrust it away.
From The Betrayal by E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim
If it is dry the accused is held to be guilty—fear has stopped the secretion of saliva—obstupui, stetetuntque comae, et vox faucibus haesit.
From Criminal Psychology; a manual for judges, practitioners, and students by Hans Gustav Adolf Gross
The nuclei and comae of different comets exhibit few peculiarities to the unaided vision except in respect to brightness; but the tails of comets differ widely, both in brightness and in extent.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 7 "Columbus" to "Condottiere" by Various
In December, 15-month-old Louie and Vinnie Hughes were placed in induced comas as they fought to survive the disease.
From BBC ● Jan. 3, 2025
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, methyl bromide can cause lung disease, convulsions, comas and ultimately death.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 13, 2024
For the current study, she and her team looked at the medical records of four people who were in comas and on life support on whom physicians had placed electroencephalography caps.
From Science Magazine ● May 1, 2023
He literally had to drag us out of the car to break our comas.
From Salon ● Apr. 28, 2023
Somewhere, Brian thought, somewhere he’d heard something about comas.
From "The River" by Gary Paulsen
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