persistent vegetative state

"Have you ever seen a person in a persistent vegetative state?"

Of five kids, three were killed, and one is in a persistent vegetative state.

The heart comes from a patient in a persistent vegetative state.

The patient, only 35, had been in a persistent vegetative state for 15 years.

People in a persistent vegetative state, he said, "have no knowledge of food."

She may be in a "persistent vegetative state," but so what?

That's just a few steps up from a persistent vegetative state.

An additional 2,000 will exist in a persistent vegetative state.

It should not be confused with a persistent vegetative state.

Statistics on spending for patients in persistent vegetative states are hard to come by.

Doctors say the accident has left her in "a persistent vegetative state."

The "persistent vegetative state" is an absurd product of recent technology.

Since then, she has remained in what doctors have described as a "persistent vegetative state."

It gives instructions to stop treatment if she is in a persistent vegetative state for five years.

He is best known for his work with families on public cases involving persons in a persistent vegetative state.

She was in a very deep form of unconsciousness called a persistent vegetative state.

The most severe cases result in coma or even persistent vegetative state.

The 13-year-old boy who died this April was not in a coma or a persistent vegetative state.

I came to the conclusion that he was, you could say, close to the persistent vegetative state."

She had read the statistics on coma patients and the persistent vegetative state.

After being in a coma and persistent vegetative state for 4 years, he died on December 9, 2007.

If they're in a coma or a persistent vegetative state and there's no hope for recovery.

"She is severely impaired but definitely not in a persistent vegetative state."

He acknowledges that society is not yet ready to declare people in persistent vegetative states dead.

Doctors said she was in a "persistent vegetative state."