Comatoseness (Noun)
Meaning
A state of deep and often prolonged unconsciousness; usually the result of disease or injury.
Classification
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents.
Examples
- The patient had been in a coma for several weeks, unable to respond to her family or medical team, lost in a deep state of comatoseness.
- As a result of the head trauma, John was plunged into a comatoseness that would last for several months, his recovery hanging in the balance.
- After a year of unresponsiveness, Sarah finally began to emerge from the comatoseness that had enveloped her since the car accident.
- Medical professionals had difficulty treating the mysterious case of comatoseness that seemed to afflict multiple people in the same household, without apparent cause or link.
- Scientists continue to study the mechanisms underlying comatoseness in order to develop effective treatments and hasten the recovery of those afflicted by prolonged unconsciousness.