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Definition of Semicoma
1. Noun. A mild comatose state; a coma from which the person can be roused by appropriate stimuli.
Definition of Semicoma
1. Noun. A mild coma. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Semicoma
1. a coma from which a person can be aroused [n -S]
Medical Definition of Semicoma
1. An imprecise term for a state of drowsiness and inaction, in which more than ordinary stimulation may be required to evoke a response, and the response may be delayed or incomplete. Synonym: semiconscious. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Semicoma
Literary usage of Semicoma
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1919)
"Headache, slow mentality, semicoma, delirium, vomiting, unequal pupils, nystagmus,
early changes in retina and optic nerve suggestive of choked disk, ..."
2. Handbook of Severe Disability: A Text for Rehabilitation Counselors, Other edited by Walter C. Stolov, Michael R. Clowers (2000)
"... eg, shaving; mentation may or may not be impaired Class 5: semicoma or coma
SOURCE: Council on the Kidney in Cardiovascular Disease, American Heart ..."
3. Thought and Things: A Study of the Development and Meaning of Thought, Or by James Mark Baldwin (1906)
"Only new-born babes, and persons in semicoma from sleep, drugs, illnesses or
blows can have an experience pure in the literal sense of a that which is not ..."
4. International Clinics: A Quarterly of Clinical Lectures by Henry W. Cattell, M. D. Witherspoon (1908)
"In these cases, usually in children, the patients though stupefied or even
semicoma- tose, can be aroused and made to swallow and usually retain the ..."
5. Nervous and Mental Diseases by Archibald Church, Frederick Peterson (1919)
"The clot is usually small, owing to the small caliber of the cortical arteries ;
the stroke, therefore, is slight or absent, but stupor and semicoma may be ..."
6. Transactions of the Association of American Physicians by Association of American Physicians (1905)
"The next day the patient was in a semicoma, being hard to arouse; the neck was
stiff; there were movements of the left leg seemingly automatic; ..."
7. Nervous and Mental Diseases by Archibald Church, Frederick Peterson (1914)
"The clot is usually small, owing to the small caliber of the cortical arteries;
the stroke, therefore, is slight or absent, but stupor and semicoma may be ..."
8. Nervous and mental diseases by Archibald Church, Frederick Peterson (1911)
"The clot is usually small, owing to the small caliber of the cortical arteries ;
the stroke, therefore, is slight or absent, but stupor and semicoma may be ..."
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