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n. A state of deep, often prolonged unconsciousness, usually the result of injury, disease, or poison, in which an individual is incapable of sensing or responding to external stimuli and internal needs.

n. Astronomy The nebulous luminescent cloud containing the nucleus and constituting the major portion of the head of a comet.

n. Botany A usually terminal tuft or cluster, especially a tuft of hairs on a seed, as on a willow or milkseed.

n. Physics A diffuse, comet-shaped image of a point source of light or radiation caused by aberration in the optical system.

n. A state of sleep from which one may not wake up, usually induced by some form of trauma.

n. A cloud of dust surrounding the nucleus of a comet

n. A defect characterized by diffuse, pear-shaped images that should be points

n. A tuft or bunch, such as the assemblage of branches forming the head of a tree, a cluster of bracts when empty and terminating the inflorescence of a plant, or a tuft of long hairs on certain seeds.

n. A state of profound insensibility from which it is difficult or impossible to rouse a person. See carus.

n. The envelope of a comet; a nebulous covering, which surrounds the nucleus or body of a comet.

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. In pathology, a state of prolonged unconsciousness some what resembling sleep, from which the patient cannot be aroused, or can be aroused only partially, temporarily, and with difficulty; stupor.

n. In botany: The leafy head of a tree, or a cluster of leaves terminating a stem, as the leafy top of a pineapple.

n. The silky hairs at the end of some seeds, as of the willow-herb, Epilobium.

n. In astronomy, the nebulous hair-like envelop surrounding the nucleus of a comet.

n. In microscopy, the hazy fringe on the outline of a microscopic object seen when the lens is not free from spherical aberration.

n. a state of deep and often prolonged unconsciousness; usually the result of disease or injury

n. (botany) a usually terminal tuft of bracts (as in the pineapple) or tuft of hairs (especially on certain seeds)

n. (astronomy) the luminous cloud of particles surrounding the frozen nucleus of a comet; forms as the comet approaches the sun and is warmed

"Writing this book, though, allowed me to imagine what that dynamic might be like and by placing his sister in a coma from the very beginning I figured I'd be giving an eighteen-year-old boy the opportunity to be reflective about that relationship in a way he otherwise wouldn't have had."

tuft    tussock    cloud   

Coma Berenices    fulminating coma    uremic coma    diabetic coma    coma vigil   

comae    carus   

stupor    sleep   

Oklahoma    Roma    Soma    Sonoma    Tacoma    aroma    blastoma    carcinoma    diploma    douma   

stupor    paralysis    trance    lethargy    convulsion    unconsciousness    hallucination    delirium    dementia    arrhythmia