what is a vegetative state?

Question

i read abt a woman who often akes from this state she woke this week after 6 yrs

Answer 1

A persistent vegetative state (PVS) is a condition of patients with severe brain damage in whom coma has progressed to a state of wakefulness without detectable awareness.

Patients in a persistent vegetative state are usually considered to be unconscious and unaware. They are unresponsive to external stimuli, except, possibly, pain stimuli. Unlike coma, in which the patient's eyes are closed, patients in a vegetative state often open their eyes. Their eyes might be in a relatively fixed position, or track moving objects, or move in a disconjugate (i.e. completely unsynchronised) manner. They may experience sleep-wake cycles, or be in a state of chronic wakefulness. They may exhibit some behaviors that can be construed as arising from partial consciousness, such as grinding their teeth, swallowing, smiling, shedding tears, grunting, moaning, or screaming without any apparent external stimulus.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vegetative_state

Answer 2

When a person is in a vegetative state, the brain is not functioning. The person is still breathing, as the heart is still pumping correctly.

Answer 3

It is like being in a coma. What do vegitables do? Nothing, you are unable to communicate in any way and you can not move and cant be woken up. it is almost like being asleep and not waking up or being able to toss and turn hope that helps

Answer 4

That is when a person is alive but has no brain function. They can't do anything but lie in a bed and waste away.

Answer 5

Alabama?

Answer 6

You have no brain and no bodily functions. Its like a coma

Answer 7

a deep coma

Answer 8

Brain dead.