English Explanatory Dictionary

persistent vegetative state

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A condition of patients with severe brain damage in whom coma has progressed to a state of wakefulness without awareness.

Word forms

persistent vegetative state persistent vegetative states

Related words

apallic coma comatose brain death
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