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coman.1

/ˈkəʊmə/
Etymology: < Greek κῶμα (κωματ-) deep sleep, lethargy: compare κοιμᾶν to put to sleep.
a. Pathology. ‘A state of unnatural, heavy, deep and prolonged sleep, with complete unconsciousness and slow, stertorous, often irregular, breathing’ ( New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon), due to pressure on the brain, to the effect of certain poisons, or other causes, and frequently ending in death; stupor, lethargy.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > stupor or coma > [noun]
stupora1398
congelation1577
obstupescence1598
carus1605
coma1646
comatosity1805
1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica iv. ix. 200 Sneezing..is..of good signality in Lethargies, Apoplexies, Catalepsies, and Coma's.
1782 W. Heberden Comm. Hist. & Cure Dis. vii When the scarlet fever proves fatal, a coma will sometimes show itself.
18.. Hooper Physician's Vade-Mecum §914 It is often important to distinguish the coma of drunkenness from that of apoplexy.
1877 F. T. Roberts Handbk. Med. (ed. 3) I. 13 Death beginning at the brain is said to be by coma.
b. coma vigil n. Applied in earlier medical treatises to a condition anterior to fevers: see quots. 1708 1822; but by Sir W. Jenner to a lethargic condition in which a typhus fever patient lies with wide open eyes, totally unconscious, but muttering in delirium.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > stupor or coma > [noun] > specific coma
coma vigil1708
hydrocephaloid disease1842
nitrogen narcosis1937
insulin coma1942
rapture of the deep1953
narks1962
the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > stupor or coma > [noun] > morbid sleeplessness
watchfulness1596
insomnia1623
agrypnia1665
coma vigil1708
1708 J. Harris Lexicon Technicum (ed. 2) I Coma Vigil, waking Drowsiness, is a Disease wherein the Patients are continually inclined to Sleep, but scarce can sleep, being affected with a great Drowsiness.
1749 D. Hartley Observ. Man i. i. 55.
1751 R. Brookes Gen. Pract. Physic II. 427 A Coma Vigil... They have a strong Inclination to sleep, and yet either don't sleep at all, or, if they do, awake immediately with little Relief, but have no Delirium.
1822 J. M. Good Study Med. III. 587 Imperfect Lethargy, is the Typhomania of the Greek writers; the Coma Vigil of many later pathologists.
1871 T. Watson Lect. Physic (ed. 5) II. 869.
a1883 C. H. Fagge Princ. & Pract. Med. (1886) I. 145 In a peculiar state to which Jenner has appropriated the term Coma vigil.
c. figurative.
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1876 Gladstone in Pall Mall Budget (1887) 14 Apr. 6/2 Honour, duty, compassion, and I must add shame, are sentiments never in a state of coma.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

coman.2

/ˈkəʊmə/
Forms: Plural comæ /-miː/.
Etymology: < Latin coma, < Greek κόμη hair of the head, also applied to foliage, etc., and to the tail of a comet.
1. Botany.
a. A tuft of silky hairs at the end of some seeds, as those of Epilobium.
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the world > plants > part of plant > reproductive part(s) > flower or part containing reproductive organs > [noun] > parts of > calyx > pappus or appendage on seed
plume1578
pappe1657
pappus1704
corona1753
coronule1806
coma1830
plumule1894
1830 J. Lindley Introd. Nat. Syst. Bot. 236 Cyrtandraceæ ..Seeds..naked, or with a coma.
1872 D. Oliver Lessons Elem. Bot. (new ed.) ii. 172 The silky coma surrounding the top of the seeds of the Willow-herbs.
b. A tuft of bracts occurring beyond the inflorescence, as in the pine-apple; ‘the crown of sterile flowers on the top of some forms of inflorescence’ ( New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon).
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the world > plants > part of plant > leaf > bract, scale, palea, or spathe > [noun] > scale-leaves or bracts
coma1669
chaff1776
cataphyllary leaves1875
1669 W. Rowland tr. J. Schroeder Compl. Chymical Dispensatory 2 Coma, in plants, signifies the tops.
1770 C. Milne Bot. Dict. at Bractea Large bracteæ, which, from their resemblance to a bush of hair, are denominated coma.
c. The arrangement of the leafy branches forming the ‘head’ of a tree.
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the world > plants > part of plant > part of tree or woody plant > [noun] > tree-top
cropa1300
heada1387
tree-crop14..
tree-copc1425
treetop1530
crownet1578
crown1589
coma1870
stag-horn1879
1870 R. Bentley Man. Bot. (ed. 2) i. iii. 108 The head of a tree is called the coma.
2. Astronomy. The nebulous envelope surrounding the nucleus of a comet, and forming the outer portion of the ‘head’.
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the world > the universe > constellation > comet or meteor > comet > [noun] > head > coma
chevelure1672
coma1766
1766 M. Maty in Philos. Trans. 1765 (Royal Soc.) 55 307 The nucleus could not be distinguished from the coma.
1878 S. Newcomb Pop. Astron. iii. v. 365 The tail is a continuation of the coma.
figurative.1815 W. Taylor in Monthly Mag. XXXIX. 309 It is not everywhere possible for the most ingenious critic to distinguish..the nucleus from the coma.
3. The blurred appearance surrounding an object seen under a microscope when the lens is not free from spherical aberration.
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the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > optical instruments > magnification or magnifying instruments > [noun] > microscope > coma
coma1867
1867 J. Hogg Microscope (ed. 6) i. ii. 64 If the greater expansion or coma be when the object is without the focus.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online September 2018).
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