vegetative state, the patient is classified as being in a persistent vegetative state (PVS). This diagnosis is classified as a permanent vegetative state...

A minimally conscious state (MCS) is a disorder of consciousness distinct from persistent vegetative state (PVS) and locked-in syndrome. Unlike PVS, patients...

arousal. This category generally includes minimally conscious state and persistent vegetative state, but sometimes also includes the less severe locked-in syndrome...

Look up vegetative in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Vegetative describes vegetation. Vegetative may also refer to: Vegetative reproduction, a type of...

December 3, 1963 – March 31, 2005), a woman in an irreversible permanent vegetative state. Schiavo's husband and legal guardian argued that Schiavo would not...

for 221 days due to a brain hemorrhage. He was then in a persistent vegetative state and unable to speak. He was eventually released from the hospital,...

some progress to a vegetative state or a minimally conscious state, and others die. Some patients who have entered a vegetative state go on to regain a...

the journal Science, showing that some patients thought to be in a vegetative state are in fact fully aware and (shown subsequently) able to communicate...

care physician, concludes that she is in an irreversible persistent vegetative state (PVS). The Schindlers (Terri's parents) actively encourage Michael...

technology meant many people opted to live their virtual lives in a semi-vegetative state while drones did most of the work. In 1994, teenager Michelle lives...

in Tübingen. Kretschmer was the first to describe the persistent vegetative state which has also been called Kretschmer's syndrome. Another medical term...

death and two other conditions: persistent vegetative state and coma. Patients in a persistent vegetative state "are alive but also have severely impaired...

while on a crash diet and lapsed into a coma, followed by a persistent vegetative state. After doctors refused the request of her parents (Joseph and Julia...

he began losing voluntary motor control and eventually fell into a vegetative state for three years. He began regaining consciousness around age 16 and...

lifespans of those who were unconscious, minimally unconscious, and in a vegetative state were short as they were unable to receive assistance with basic needs...

of Fortune. Sunny von Bülow lived almost 28 years in a persistent vegetative state, from December 1980 until her death in a New York City nursing home...

due to lost pyramidal control of motor systems. Unlike persistent vegetative state, in which the upper portions of the brain are damaged and the lower...

attention in a court case on euthanasia after spending over 41 years in a vegetative state as a result of a sexual assault. In 1973, while working as a junior...

way to classify patient outcomes into five broad categories: death, vegetative state, severe disability, moderate disability, or good recovery. The scale...

who awoke from coma-like states, such as a persistent vegetative state, minimally conscious state, catatonic stupor, or locked-in syndrome after a lengthy...

breathing) necessary to sustain life. It differs from persistent vegetative state, in which the person is alive and some autonomic functions remain....

precepts, someone who is in a vegetative state is neither dead nor alive, but instead is said to be in some form of obscure state of mind and still a living...

when the surrounding vegetative cell is degraded. Endospores are resistant to most agents that would normally kill the vegetative cells they formed from...

death. Stage 4: Progressive loss of consciousness into a persistent vegetative state, which may be preceded by or concomitant with paralysis, occurs in...

disaster. He suffered severe brain damage that left him in a persistent vegetative state; as a consequence of that, the hospital, with the support of his parents...

nutrition and hydration (ANH), from patients had spent years in a vegetative state. In 2005, when Terry Schiavo died after the withdrawal of life support...

development in early childhood, followed by rapid degeneration to a vegetative state. The other forms of ALD vary in timing of onset and in clinical severity...

facilities are managed. Other well-known pregnancies involving sexually abused vegetative and comatose female patients have also been reported in New York in 1996...

are awake, in REM sleep or in a locked-in state than in those who are in deep sleep or in a vegetative state, making it potentially useful as a quantitative...

death. He receives a letter from Krishnamoorthy stating that Aravindan is not dead but in a vegetative state, not responding to anyone and only sitting in...