persistent vegetative state

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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
persistent vegetative state

▶noun a condition in which a patient is completely unresponsive to stimuli and displays no sign of higher brain function, being kept alive only by medical intervention.

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