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Coma

Coma

a deep prolonged unconsciousness where the patient cannot be aroused. This is usually as the result of a head injury, neurological disease, acute hydrocephaly, intoxication or metabolic derangement.


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electric shock and memory

... out some interesting tests where he shocked a person so much that he could no longer get any seizures out of the patient, and then kept them in a coma while playing repeating tapes of looping sound (from statements to just sounds), which he theorized would completely wipe their minds of any mental ...

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by squares
Wed Jun 18, 2008 3:06 am
 
Forum: Physiology
Topic: electric shock and memory
Replies: 6
Views: 2335

Re: Metabolization of fat

Yep, when I was diagnosed 2 months ago I was reading moderate levels of ketones.. not enough to be in a coma (obviously as I wasn't) but more than normal which I understand is 0. What branch of biology is it that deals with the digestion, and processing of sugars/fats, glucose ...

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by goldenhorseshoe
Thu Jan 10, 2008 10:40 pm
 
Forum: Human Biology
Topic: Metabolization of fat
Replies: 13
Views: 1639

Metabolization of fat

... blood concentration(as can be the case in untreated diabetus mellitus or during severe fasting) can have dramatic consequences, including ketoacid coma and even death. Regards, Andrew

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by MrMistery
Thu Jan 10, 2008 6:33 pm
 
Forum: Human Biology
Topic: Metabolization of fat
Replies: 13
Views: 1639

coma

Other human, You asked your question more like 2 years ago, so by now you will now many answers. It depends pro person. It depends on what cells in his brain are broken and not, yet, recovered. I hope you will stay his friend, because of his sake. If it is hard to still like him, try at least to see...

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by supergirl
Sat Jun 02, 2007 9:08 pm
 
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Question in regards to brain damage.
Replies: 4
Views: 938

i know you don't see god within a day after your death

I have been in a coma when i was allmost 16. I have been in a light and so on, a deathexperience or something. The docters thought i was dead first. They asked my parents for a codicil because they wanted to cut in me. My grandmother ...

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by supergirl
Fri Jun 01, 2007 4:26 pm
 
Forum: Evolution
Topic: God vs Evolution
Replies: 266
Views: 26865
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