Sentences with phrase «as vegetative»

Upon enrollment, eight were able to respond to language, three were classified as minimally conscious without language response, three classified as vegetative and two as in a coma.

Some of those who were minimally conscious didn't learn as well as some who were classified as vegetative and vice versa.

This robot will provide reliable, fast and objective information on the state of the vineyards to grapegrowers, such as vegetative development, water status, production and grape composition.

The new case involved a Frenchman whose brain damage, suffered in a car accident, left him completely unresponsive and unconscious, known as a vegetative state.

In one 1996 study published in the British Medical Journal, 17 of 40 patients originally diagnosed as vegetative turned out to be locked - in instead.

No one knows how many others in the same state are incorrectly labeled as vegetative or semicomatose and warehoused, doomed to a nightmare world where they exist in a body that feels but can not move, with a brain that is intact, hearing and seeing but unable to communicate a presence to others.

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Thus, the transition from instinct to reason results in the radical transformation of the animal into man; matter as it evolves toward the cell becomes radically transformed into living matter; and vegetative life becomes qualitatively changed into conscious life.

Instinct, in its turn, has its counterpart in a still more rudimentary form in vegetative life as tropism.

But precisely the thing of not being conscious of oneself as spirit is despair, which is spiritlessness — whether the condition be that of complete deadness, a merely vegetative life, or a life of higher potency the secret of which is nevertheless despair.

Alcohol acts as a narcotic — first, in suppressing the higher mental functions and then, as larger doses are taken, in reducing a person to the animal level and finally to unconscious vegetative immobility.

Second, there are basically two organic forms: the vegetative and the animate, the lower of which manifests a type of «collective» individuality, («a tree is a democracy,» as Whitehead is fond of saying); and the higher animate form, in which the whole manifests a centrally unified field of experience wherein «subjective» individuality is the norm.

[10] A vegetative state tends to be regarded as «persistent» if it lasts any time from one to three months and «permanent» after a year or more.

The researchers found that seventeen (43 \ %) had been misdiagnosed by their referring physicians as being in PVS; thirteen (33 \ %) slowly emerged from the vegetative condition during rehabilitation therapy; and only ten (25 \ %) remained in the vegetative state.

Witness, for example, our treatment of those said to be in a «persistent vegetative state» (PVS, defined in 1972 as a condition of «wakefulness without awareness»).

The theological rationale for withdrawing feedings from the so «called «vegetative» person was first provided by such ethicists as Father Kevin O'Rourke, now director emeritus of The Center for Health Care Ethics in St. Louis.

We never use synthetic or inorganic fertilizers, relying instead upon parcel rotation, as well as the area's ideal climatic and vegetative characteristics, to minimize exposure to plagues and maximize the quality of our output.

Seedlings can be fertilized with fairly high levels of nitrogen to encourage strong vegetative growth, but after the plants have adjusted to the garden, fertilizers should not be applied unless the plants have low nitrogen symptoms, such as leaf yellowing and stunted growth.

Technically a spice is defined as a dried seed, fruit, root, bark or leafy vegetative substance used as a food additive for the purpose of flavoring.

Farms located in areas where the original natural vegetative cover is forest must establish and maintain, as part of the conservation program, permanent shade distributed homogenously throughout the plantations; the shade must meet the following requirements:

The lush green vegetative ecological wonder that is the Mambilla plateau, in north east Taraba state, turned red as it became the latest scene...

The first PET scan of a person with Cotard's revealed that metabolic activity in the frontal and parietal regions of the brain was so low as to resemble that of someone in a vegetative state (Cortex, doi.org/mmt).

The Earth relies on its vegetative cover to extract and hold onto carbon dioxide when a great deal of it finds its way into the atmosphere, as has happened with the burning of fossil fuels.

It also suggests that some patients diagnosed as being in a vegetative state (VS) are in fact minimally conscious (MCS).

Semideterminate soybean plants — mid-size plants that continue vegetative growth even after flowering — can produce as many or more pods than current northern cultivars but do not grow as tall.

No one knows how many people are in a minimally conscious or vegetative state — perhaps as many as 280,000 in the United States alone.

Later, as he studied how climate change was impacting vegetative growth as a postdoc at UC Santa Cruz, Ram found that colleagues weren't willing to hand over the raw measurements behind published data, or the algorithms that supported the authors» conclusions.

The worst scenario, he says, is that the person has some aspects of awareness but they have been misdiagnosed as persistently vegetative.

If the technology helps other people recovering from coma, Monti said, it could eventually be used to build a portable device — perhaps incorporated into a helmet — as a low - cost way to help «wake up» patients, perhaps even those who are in a vegetative or minimally conscious state.

Whyte's recent work has shown pharmaceuticals such as Ambien (zolpidem) help vegetative patients regain consciousness, but it hasn't proved to be a silver bullet.

The new detection of learning also opens up questions about when patients should be classified as being in a persistent vegetative state — in which emergence isn't predicted to be likely — as Terri Schiavo was determined to be at the time.

Testing treatments The revelation that some vegetative or minimally conscious patients can learn does not come as a surprise to all.

Moreover, it is called the «green cancer» due to the negative effects it has on the environment as well as its invasive characteristics: rapid growth, short generation time, its ability to both reproduce alone and vegetative propagation, and profuse production of seeds which are easily spread.

In 2005, just as the deep brain stimulation patient was making his first forays into awareness, the fate of Terri Schiavo, a Florida woman who had been in a vegetative state since 1990, sparked an ideological war.

Three separate studies, the most recent in 2009, indicate that up to 41 percent of people diagnosed as being in a vegetative state are, when more carefully examined, found to be at least partly aware.

WHEN he found out that his old flame, Maureen, was in a vegetative state as a result of a brain haemorrhage, neuroscientist Adrian Owen started wondering whether she, and other people in a similar situation, might have some awareness.

Such a capacity, which suggests at least partial awareness, distinguishes minimally conscious patients from those in a vegetative state and therefore has implications for subsequent care and rehabilitation, as well as for legal and ethical decision making.

A convenience sample of 54 patients with severe brain injury, including 23 in a vegetative state and 31 in a minimally conscious state, underwent functional MRI as a means of evaluating their performance on motor and spatial imagery tasks.

The severe vegetative phenotypes observed in PCZ - treated seedlings (e.g., dwarf and erect leaves) likely result from systematic inhibition of BR biosynthesis, as opposed to the inflorescence - specific loss affected by bsl1.

There are tens of thousands of people in the United States who have been diagnosed as being in a vegetative state — unresponsive and unaware of their surroundings.

However, this may be linked to previous observations suggesting a higher presence of vegetative cells when Clostridium is located in the human gut as compared to soil environments, where the conditions are stressful [28].

However, your body can also convert ALA into both of these compounds as has been demonstrated in a number of studies that examine human blood levels of these compounds after eating vegetative sources of ALA..

Geometrical prints works great with unstructured prints as florals or other vegetative ones.

There was a delicate balance of vegetative, and true to nature, floral prints but with a glam touch (hence the city vibes) as sheer fabrics, tulle and elegant drapings.

He has already broken countless eugenic laws by allowing the products of his program to become fully functioning and conscious beings rather than the vegetative agnates he promotes them as.

DVD Review by Kam Williams Headline: Jamie Kennedy Dud about Dude Destined to Breakdance Due on DVD Justin (Jamie Kennedy) was left in a vegetative state after landing on his head while breakdancing as an adolescent.

Some comas, such as those induced by low blood sugar (aka a diabetic coma), can be reversed relatively quickly with the proper remedies, but others can result in the patient remaining in a permanent vegetative state or in death.

Because Miles is diagnosed as being in a «minimally conscious state» rather than a «persistent vegetative state,» there is no legal way to bring about his death, a bewildering paradox that Spinney navigates with compassion and wisdom.

She shares no platitudes or explanations — just the raw emotions of parents whose child would, as Rapp describes, «gradually regress into a vegetative state within the span of one year....

Carefully remove vegetative matter such as grass awns, seed casings, or thorny twigs with fingers or comb.

Although a century's worth of sheep ranching and overgrazing caused scientists in 1875 to describe the island as «a barren lump of sand,» with the grazing animals removed, vegetative recovery is in progress.