Other forms: comas
A coma is a deep unconsciousness that a person cannot be roused from. In a coma, come out of a coma, an induced coma.
It is measured on the Glasgow scale, which scores eyes, speech and movement, and a lasting one is different from the sudden waking of films. An induced coma is deliberate, using drugs to rest a damaged brain. It rarely lasts more than a few weeks before changing into another state.
1nouncomaA deep unconsciousness a person cannot be roused from.
“After the accident, he was in a coma for two weeks before he woke up.”
coma is a medical state.
Ancient Greek
κῶμα — deep sleep
English, today
coma
Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek κῶμα (“deep sleep”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA