coma
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 8
- Words With Friends
- 10
- Letters
- 4
/ˈkəʊmə/(UK)
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/ˈkəʊmə/(UK) · /ˈkoʊmə/(US)
Definition of coma
4 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included
noun
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A state of unconsciousness from which one may not wake up, usually induced by some form of trauma.
“go into a coma”
“slip into a coma”
“come out of a coma”
“An a aphrodisiac, it results in santonin poisoning, followed by coma and death.”
“I wonder if a person who comes out of a coma feels refreshed and well rested.”
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noun
-
A state of unconsciousness from which one may not wake up, usually induced by some form of trauma.
“go into a coma”
“slip into a coma”
“come out of a coma”
“An a aphrodisiac, it results in santonin poisoning, followed by coma and death.”
“I wonder if a person who comes out of a coma feels refreshed and well rested.”
- A cloud of dust surrounding the nucleus of a comet.
- A defect characterized by diffuse, pear-shaped images that in an ideal image would appear as points.
- 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.
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek κῶμα (kôma, “deep sleep”).
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