noun
coma
CEFR B2
a state of deep and often prolonged unconsciousness; usually the result of disease or injury
In a sentence
Six example sentences with coma, each labelled with its topic.
The team kept her in a controlled coma for four days while the swelling around the brain subsided.
Medicine
The film opens with a pianist waking from a coma to find his own recordings topping the charts.
Movies
The novel's middle section is narrated from inside a coma, all sound and no light for ninety pages.
Literature
Researchers played familiar voices to patients in a coma and recorded faint brain responses that strangers' voices never triggered.
Psychology
Philosophers ask whether a person in a coma still holds the interests she had before, or whether those now belong to memory alone.
Philosophy
The court named her brother guardian while she remained in a coma, so bills could be paid and consent given.
Law
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