noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
deep
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And sometimes no purposeful movements result, in which case we talk of deep coma .
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Soon after that she would lapse into sleep, then unconsciousness, then a state of deep coma .
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He was in a deep coma .
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The cat may even fall into a deep coma .
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Dawn was in a deep coma , and was not responding to painful stimuli, although her pupils were not fixed.
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The 59-year-old star needed two life-saving operation to remove blood clots and was left in a deep coma after brain surgery.
■ VERB
go
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He went into a coma and died soon afterwards.
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She went into a coma , and Dad and Roland drove back to the Northwest.
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Voice over Mark fell on to the road with such force that he went into a coma from which he never recovered.
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Late that night she went into a coma .
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For a while there I thought you'd gone into a coma .
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Diabetic, gone into a coma from low blood sugar.
slip
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Michael was already slipping into a coma after three hours in the cold seas.
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But the genre always seems to slip back into a coma .
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Two days later the former Enniskillen high school principal slipped into a coma from which he never awakened.
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The elder Grant, 65, suffered a stroke that caused brain damage and slipped into a coma last week.
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The afternoon is slipping under, into coma .
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But then he took a sudden downturn and slipped into a coma .
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He slipped into a coma , which lasted about four weeks.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A woman is in love with a married man, whose wife is in a permanent coma .
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And sometimes no purposeful movements result, in which case we talk of deep coma .
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He was alert and neurologically normal with a Glasgow coma score of 14 on admission.
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He was unconscious by the time he arrived at hospital in Sanford and remained in a coma until he died.
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Into a coma , most likely.
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It was more, she blinked her eyes, as if roused out of a coma .
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Perhaps a coma , if worse came to worst.
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The 59-year-old star needed two life-saving operation to remove blood clots and was left in a deep coma after brain surgery.