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Coma logo #10101) Abnormally deep sleep 2) Astronomy term 3) Best seller by Robin Cook 4) Best-selling Cook book 5) Big sleep 6) Botanical tuft 7) Bujold thriller 8) Comatoseness 9) Comet envelope 10) Cook bestseller 11) Cook book 12) Cook creation 13) Cook thriller 14) Debut novel 15) Debut single 16) Deep absence of mind
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Coma logo #10101) Comatoseness 2) Oblivion 3) Stupor
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Coma logo #22003 unconsciousness. For a diabetic, coma can be caused by hypoglycemia or by diabetic ketoacidosis.
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Coma logo #21002• (n.) A tuft or bunch, -- as the assemblage of branches forming the head of a tree; or a cluster of bracts when empty and terminating the inflorescence of a plant; or a tuft of long hairs on certain seeds. • (n.) The envelope of a comet; a nebulous covering, which surrounds the nucleus or body of a comet. • (n.) A state of profound ...
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coma logo #21003(from the article `comet`) The coma, which produces the nebulous appearance of the cometary head, is a short-lived, rarefied, and dusty atmosphere escaping from the nucleus. It ... ...orbits of Saturn and Uranus with a period of about 50.7 years. In 1989 two other Americans, Karen J. Meech and Michael Belton, detected a fuzzy ... ......
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coma logo #21003(from the article `optics`) The 2 term in the OPD expression represents the aberration called coma, in which the image of a point has the appearance of a comet. The and ... Coma, so called because a point image is blurred into a comet shape, is produced when rays from an off-axis object point are imaged by different ... ...in diffe...
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coma logo #21579A condition in which a patient is in a state of deep sleep and cannot be awakened. A coma may be caused by many things, including trauma, drugs, toxins, or certain diseases.
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coma logo #21160A glowing envelope of gas and dust that surrounds a comet`s nucleus when the comet comes within a few astronomical units of the Sun (although Chiron has been seen to develop a coma at 11 AU). At perihelion, the coma is typically about 100,000 km across, and shaped into a teardrop by the solar wind. ...
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Coma logo #20437A period of profound and prolonged unconsciousness following disease or injury.
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coma logo #20973A deep prolonged unconsciousness where the patient cannot be aroused. This is usually as the result of a head injury, neurological disease, acute hydrocephaly, intoxication or metabolic derangement. ... (27 Sep 1997) ...
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coma logo #21001(ko´mә) a state of unconsciousness from which the patient cannot be aroused, even by powerful stimuli. Traumatic brain injuries are the most frequent cause; other causes include severe uncontrolled diabetes mellitus, liver disease, kidney disease, and neurologic conditions. adj., co´matose., adj.
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Coma logo #22034A ring or tuft of fine hairs on a seed, functional in wind dispersal.
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coma logo #10444(Humans as organisms) a state of deep unconciousness in which a person does not respond to any external stimuli
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Coma logo #20972Co'ma (kō'mȧ) noun [ New Latin , from Greek kw^ma lethargy, from koima^n to put to sleep. See Cemetery .] A state of profound insensibility from which it is difficult or impossible to rouse a person. See Carus .
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Coma logo #20972Co'ma noun [ Latin , hair, from Greek ko`mh .] 1. (Astron.) The envelope of a comet; a nebulous covering, which surrounds the nucleus or body of a comet. 2. (Botany) A tuft or bunch, -- as the assemblage of branches forming the head of a tree; or a cluster...
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Coma logo #20877A coma is a sleep like state when someone is unconscious for a long period of time.
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Coma logo #21217A coma is a state of deep unconsciousness.
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Coma logo #20948A lens aberration or defect that causes rays that passes obliquely through the lens to be focused at different points on the film plane.
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Coma logo #20948A lens aberration restricted to off axis image points; the inability of a lens to render point sources of light near the edges of the frame as circular; the points of light appear as comet-shaped blurs (hence the name coma) with the tails flaring toward the center of the image; this aberration is very difficult to eliminate in wideangle lenses with...
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Coma logo #23534 Synonym for the grape variety Planta Nova; see there. Nova plant The white grape variety comes from Spain. Synonyms are Tortozon(France); Alva(Portugal); Alligator, Alvarelhão Branco, Cepa de Grande, Cetima, Coma, Luparello, Pansa Nova, Malvasía, Tardana, Tortozón(Spain). It must not be confused with the variety Touriga Branca (Alvarelhão ...
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coma logo #23408A roughly spherical region of diffuse gas which surrounds the nucleus of a comet. Together, the coma and the nucleus form the comet's head.
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Coma logo #20176A lens defect which results in points of light appearing in the image not as points but as discs with comet-like tails.
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Coma logo #20875a condition in which the area of the brain involved in maintaining consciousness is somehow affected, resulting in a state of unconsciousness in which the patient does not respond to stimulation
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coma logo #20974comatoseness noun a state of deep and often prolonged unconsciousness; usually the result of disease or injury
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coma logo #21221(medicine) In medicine, a state of deep unconsciousness from which the subject cannot be roused. Possible causes include head injury, brain disease, liver failure, cerebral haemorrhage, and drug overdose
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