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persistent vegetative state

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.88 in modern English

Syllables
per-sis-ten-t veg-e-ta-tive s-tate
IPA
34
Scrabble Score
25
Letters
8
Syllables
10
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

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

Inflected Forms

persistent vegetative states (plural)

Phrases

brain death

Frequently Paired Words

apallic coma comatose brain death vegetative

Questions

What does persistent vegetative state mean?
A condition of patients with severe brain damage in whom coma has progressed to a state of wakefulness without awareness.

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