The vegetative state is a chronic or long-term condition. This condition differs from a coma: a coma is a state that lacks both awareness and wakefulness. Patients in a vegetative state may have awoken from a coma, but still have not regained awareness. In the vegetative state patients can open their eyelids occasionally and demonstrate sleep-wake cycles, but completely lack cognitive function.
smeg@feddit.uk 1 day ago
In a vegetative state would be more accurate:
voodooattack@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
Didn’t know that! Thanks for the clarification!
smeg@feddit.uk 20 hours ago
I didn’t either til I looked it up!