Coma vs Consciousness - What's the difference?
coma | consciousness |
A state of sleep from which one may not wake up, usually induced by some form of trauma.
(astronomy) A cloud of dust surrounding the nucleus of a comet.
(optics) A defect characterized by diffuse, pear-shaped images that should be points.
(botany) 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.
The state of being conscious or aware; awareness.
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As nouns the difference between coma and consciousness
is that coma is a state of sleep from which one may not wake up, usually induced by some form of trauma or coma can be (astronomy) a cloud of dust surrounding the nucleus of a comet while consciousness is the state of being conscious or aware; awareness.coma
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(wikipedia coma)Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)See also
* persistent vegetative state * brain deathEtymology 2
From (etyl) .Noun
(comae)Anagrams
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Noun
(wikipedia consciousness)The machine of a new soul, passage=Yet this is the level of organisation that does the actual thinking—and is, presumably, the seat of consciousness .}}