vegetative state

基本解释

This might be a persistent vegetative state with no possibility of turning it on, even in principle.
这可能是个持续性植物状态,即便原则上，都没有可能重启开关。
She emerged in a “persistent vegetative state”—the common term for someone who does not respond consciously to their surroundings.
她处于"持绿性植物状态"——一个常用于那些不能对环境做出有意识反应的人的术语。
He and his colleagues have a lot of them: They wake up 84 percent of their patients from a minimally conscious or vegetative state.
他和他的同事有不止一次的“侥幸成功”：他们成功使84%的病人从最小意识或植物人状态醒来。

This might be a persistent vegetative state with no possibility of turning it on, even in principle.
这可能是个持续性植物状态,即便原则上，都没有可能重启开关。
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There we are in Phase D,in something like, perhaps,persistent vegetative state.
这就是D阶段，可以叫做，持续植物人状态。
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Only 7% of people who enter into a prolonged vegetative state have good recoveries.
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