comanoun [ C ]
uk/ˈkəʊ.mə/us/ˈkoʊ.mə/a state in which a person is unconscious and cannot be woken, caused by damage to the brain after an accident or illness:
He's been in a coma for the past six weeks.
She went into a deep coma after taking an overdose of sleeping pills.
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Disorders of muscles & the nervous system
- acoustic neuroma
- akinetic-rigid HD
- ALS
- Alzheimer's
- amyloid plaque
- atrophy
- catalepsy
- chronic fatigue syndrome
- cramp
- Morton's metatarsalgia
- motor neuron disease
- Moyamoya disease
- multiple system atrophy
- muscular dystrophy
- myasthenia gravis
- persistent vegetative state
- rabid
- rabies
- spasm
- writer's cramp
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