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Vegetative vs Catatonia - What's the difference?

vegetative | catatonia |

As an adjective vegetative

is of or relating to plants; especially to their growth.

As a noun catatonia is

a severe psychiatric condition, often associated with schizophrenia, characterized by a tendency to remain in a rigid state of stupor for long periods which give way to short periods of extreme agitation.

vegetative

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Of or relating to plants; especially to their growth.
  • (biology) Of or relating to functions such as growth, nutrition and asexual reproduction rather than sexual reproduction.
  • *
  • In Lejeuneaceae vegetative branches normally originate from the basiscopic basal portion of a lateral segment half, as in the Radulaceae, and the associated leaves, therefore, are quite unmodified.
  • Physically inactive.
  • (medicine) Of a state of impaired brain function, where a person can respond to some stimuli but is incapable of voluntary acts.
  • See also

    * comatose * brain dead ----

    catatonia

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A severe psychiatric condition, often associated with schizophrenia, characterized by a tendency to remain in a rigid state of stupor for long periods which give way to short periods of extreme agitation
  • Derived terms

    * catatonic