semicomatose [医] 轻昏迷的
semicomatose[ adj ]
in a state of partial coma
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- He was revived but remained in a coma or semicomatose state through February 1988.
- Administrators, who are required by state law to force-feed patients who can't or won't eat, are wrestling over what to do with one semicomatose tubefeeder.
- A family's decision to have a feeding tube removed from a 90-year-old, semicomatose stroke victim has rekindled a debate over whether it is humane to withhold food and water from terminally ill patients.