persistent vegetative statenoun [ U ]
uk/pəˌsɪs.tənt ˌvedʒ.ɪ.tə.tɪv ˈsteɪt/us/pɚˌsɪs.tənt ˌvedʒ.ə.teɪ.t̬ɪv ˈsteɪt/specializeda medical condition in which a person's brain shows no sign of activity and they have to be kept alive by drugs and machines
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Disorders of muscles & the nervous system
- acoustic neuroma
- agnosia
- akinetic-rigid HD
- ALS
- Alzheimer's
- amyloid plaque
- atrophy
- catalepsy
- chronic fatigue syndrome
- Morton's metatarsalgia
- motor neuron disease
- Moyamoya disease
- multiple system atrophy
- muscular dystrophy
- myasthenia gravis
- rabid
- rabies
- spasm
- vapour
- writer's cramp
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