vegetative
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- adjective
- /ˈvɛdʒɪˌteɪtɪv/
- Specialized
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vegetativo
- From this perspective, the issue of providing nourishment to patients in a persistent vegetative state looks rather different.
- vegetative state
- persistent vegetative state
- a vegetative patient
So they're unconscious, pseudo unconscious and they keep them in a vegetative sort of sleep state.
- So they're unconscious, pseudo unconscious and they keep them in a vegetative sort of sleep state.
- I mean, you have really basil vegetative type functions, right?
- I mean, I thought of some stuff like vegetative state, the MI gardener experience, share and care.
Examples
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Thus, any treatments provided for a patient in a persistent vegetative state are, by our definition, futile.
Academic text (1994) -
Traumatic brain injury reduces some patients to persistent vegetative states, affecting about 250,000 to 300,000 persons in the United States alone.
Academic text (2012) -
And in this vegetative state, your mind is not doing anything.
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Any one of them could put him into a vegetative state.
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When they brought him here, he was in a complete vegetative state.
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Your father is in what we call a persistent vegetative state.
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The doctors have concluded that William is in a permanent vegetative state.
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For sixteen years, Benjamin has existed in the impenetrable twilight of a persistent vegetative state.
Academic text (2001) -
By contrast, Terry Schivo, the focus of an intense court battle... over life support in Florida, is in what doctors call... a persistent vegetative state with almost no chance of recovery.
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After the accident, he remained in a vegetative state, unable to respond to his surroundings.
Antonyms
Compounds
- Specialized
A cell in a plant or animal body that does not make sex cells and helps growth
Surface Forms
Morphology
vegetative = vegetate (semi-transparent) = veget + ative
The suffix '-ative' indicates relating to or tending to, but the specific meaning related to involuntary bodily functions is specialized.
Etymology
Vegetative in this medical sense comes from an old Latin root meaning 'to be lively' and is the same root as vegetation and vegetable, which bring to mind growth and life. So vegetative functions are the body's automatic, life-keeping activities like breathing and circulation.