What is "comatose"

Usage examples of "comatose".

Herr Apel was taken home in a comatose state, and scarcely moved or spoke again during the remainder of his life.

At the café opposite, marked by four zinc tables under a faded green awning, there was a man comatose over an unfinished drink.

But Jeremy would have perished from starvation or dehydration, and sometimes even a comatose patient might suffer pain from such a cruel death, depending on the depth of his stupor.

At the end of a long hawser, she passed again under Point Loma and continued westward to sea, bobbing high in the water as when she had first been launched, but now blind and comatose, bereft of sensors, crew and weapons, and thus no longer a ship, only a hull as she had been at Orange when I first saw her.

Sharina, Scoggin, and Neal holding the comatose wizard were the only ones who remained in the wind.

It was the Frasque, still comatose and curled up inside her force bubble like a huge twiggy foetus.

Cloud-Master of Hadrumal comatose and unrousable, a double handful besides him in the same situation.

And there are the Djebels, intelligent reptiles who have created a complex, functioning society despite the fact that they become comatose when the temperature drops.

Recently I read yet another article on Karen Quinlan, the New Jersey woman who was comatose for months and whose parents finally received court permission to order the doctors to disconnect her from the machines that were keeping her body going.

Isocal HCN, first choice amongst medical community for endogastric feeding of comatose patients.

The kind of drugs Negara had been pumping into him should have left him comatose.

Utopia, she learns that the comatose Kapera is under study along with a strange concoction in a thermos called Hyper-K.

Instead, he lay there in his biobed, his sunken chest laboring pitifully as a respirator pumped in breath after breath, comatose but technically still alive.

I discovered the comatose body of the Energy Ministry's oil supremo after he had told me comma in a hysterical phone call comma that he was being blackmailed point par.

She glared at Bruce Bogtrotter who was sitting on his chair like some huge overstuffed grub, replete, comatose, unable to move or to speak.