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Mental Disorders > Neurocognitive Disorders > Consciousness Disorders > Unconsciousness > Persistent Vegetative State
... > Pathological Conditions, Signs and Symptoms > Signs and Symptoms > Neurologic Manifestations > Neurobehavioral Manifestations > Consciousness Disorders > Unconsciousness > Persistent Vegetative State
... > Nervous System Diseases > Neurologic Manifestations > Neurobehavioral Manifestations > Consciousness Disorders > Unconsciousness > Persistent Vegetative State
Behavior and Behavior Mechanisms > Neurobehavioral Manifestations > Consciousness Disorders > Unconsciousness > Persistent Vegetative State
... > Pathological Conditions, Signs and Symptoms > Pathologic Processes > Disease Attributes > Chronic Disease > Brain Damage, Chronic > Persistent Vegetative State
Nervous System Diseases > Central Nervous System Diseases > Brain Diseases > Brain Damage, Chronic > Persistent Vegetative State

Preferred term

Persistent Vegetative State  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

Broader concept

Related concepts

Entry terms

  • Persistent Unawareness State
  • Persistent Unawareness States
  • Persistent Vegetative States
  • PVS (Persistent Vegetative State)
  • PVSs (Persistent Vegetative State)
  • State, Persistent Unawareness
  • State, Persistent Vegetative
  • States, Persistent Unawareness
  • States, Persistent Vegetative
  • Unawareness State, Persistent
  • Unawareness States, Persistent
  • Vegetative State, Persistent
  • Vegetative States, Persistent

Note

  • see also AKINETIC MUTISM

Scope note

  • Vegetative state refers to the neurocognitive status of individuals with severe brain damage, in whom physiologic functions (sleep-wake cycles, autonomic control, and breathing) persist, but awareness (including all cognitive function and emotion) is abolished.

History note

  • 1995; VEGETATIVE STATE was see COMA 1980-1994

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D018458

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