an early encounter with a patient in a vegetative state convinced dr. tononi that understanding consciousness was not just a matter of philosophy.
他早期行医时碰到的一位植物人病人使他深刻了解到意识不仅仅是哲学问题。
a patient in a vegetative state can stay unconscious for years.
一位植物人,可能多年失去知觉。
the man, now 29 years old, was one of 23 patients diagnosed as being in a vegetative state who were scanned using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fmri).
这名男子,现年29岁,是23名参入此次功能磁共振(fmri)扫描的(经诊断为)植物人患者之一。
a method of communicating with brain damaged patients who appear to be in a vegetative state has been discovered by scientists in the uk and belgium.
与大脑受损伤,陷入植物人状态的病人交流的方法已被英国和比利时的科学家发现。
patients in a vegetative state are, by definition, unable to respond to stimulation with any form of overt behaviour.
按照医学定义,植物人对外界刺激的反应无法通过任何形式的外在行为表现出来。
all had been diagnosed as being in a vegetative state - a condition where a person is awake, but has no sense of awareness of themselves or their surroundings.
一个人醒来时却对自己和周围环境毫无知觉的情形,都被诊断为植物人状态。
more recently, a jury in florida awarded $104m to a teenage boy left in a vegetative state after being trapped underwater by the suction of a swimming pool's unprotected drain.
后来一名佛罗里达的青少年因被吸进游泳池未加防护设施的水下排水沟成了植物人,陪审团判赔1.04亿美元。