Definitions for coma

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coma co·ma

Spelling: [koh-muh]

IPA: /ˈkoʊ mə/

Coma is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 31 anagrams from letters in coma (acmo).

Definitions for coma

noun

1. a state of prolonged unconsciousness, including a lack of response to stimuli, from which it is impossible to rouse a person.
2. Astronomy. the nebulous envelope around the nucleus of a comet.
3. Optics. a monochromatic aberration of a lens or other optical system in which the image from a point source cannot be brought into focus, the image of a point having the shape of a comet.
4. Botany. a tuft of silky hairs at the end of a seed. the leafy crown of a tree; cluster of leaves at the end of a stem. a terminal cluster of bracts, as in the pineapple.

Origin of coma

First recorded in 1640-50, coma is from the Greek word kôma deep sleep

Examples for coma

It was the end; coma was coming; the mind was departing with the breath.

Nine months later, he awakens from his coma with washboard abs and the ability to run really fast.

For Rick, who awakens from his coma months after the dead have risen, the world changes overnight.

Everything changes when Rick slips into a coma after being shot while pursuing a criminal.

While he was in a coma for seven days, his consciousness entered a series of transcendent realms.

It was not long before they were reduced to a coma of hunger.

The peace process is in a coma; and ISIS, Hamas, Assad, Hezbollah, and the Iranian mullahs make Israel look like the good guys.

They sprinkled him with ginger, but it took a long time before he woke from his coma.

It was the coma of my whole being, as if a thunderbolt had struck me.

In a condition almost of coma, he had no measure or count of the hours that passed.