Sentences with phrase «into vegetative»

I sneak other bursts in where I can, between my day job and my family life and my hobbies and other obligations and the way my brain slides into a vegetative apathy after the day's mundane chaos.

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....

Despite subsequent treatment that helped clear the metal from her body, she lapsed into a vegetative state in February and died the following June.

The effects of the drug seemed to last for approximately 4 hours, after which Patient L would relapse into the vegetative state.

Angela Sirigu and her team stimulated the brain of a man who fell into a vegetative state after a car crash 2001.

Grace and Ubelhart sell clones, which are clippings from mother plants, a high - quality plant that will continuously produce potent buds if put into a vegetative state.

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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.

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.

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.

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.

By replacing vegetative cover's moist soil, which contributes water vapor to the atmosphere to help generate rainfall, with bare, shiny desert soil that merely reflects sunlight directly back into space, the capacity for rainfall is diminished.

Disorders of consciousness come in shades of gray, from severely impaired «vegetative states» to the perplexing «minimally conscious state» in which people slip into and out of awareness.

Patients in a minimally conscious state (MCS) fall into an importantly different diagnostic category than patients in the more familiar vegetative sta...

When this vegetative material thaws, it rots, breaks down into carbon dioxide (if exposed to air) or methane (if under water).

Circles are not permanent; their vegetative and physical attributes allow them to be arranged into a life history sequence in which circles appear (birth), develop (mature) and become revegetated (die).

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..

We turned the Great American Desert into the bread basket of the world, changing the climate by land use / vegetative changes.

Working with G.R.A.S.S. early on in the development process is the most efficient and cost effective way to incorporate vegetative roofing systems into your projects.

The questions aren't asked to help the reader tap into the agonizing issues related to Terri Schiavo's feeding tube and partial vegetative state.