植物人
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English
- person in a vegetative state
- human vegetable
- patient suffering from permanent paralysis; person reduced by illness or accident to minimal life functions; person in PVS i.e. permanent vegetable state; vegetable; literally: plant person
粵語 — Cantonese
- 大腦大半甚至完全失去功能,全身癱瘓,但係腦幹未死,仍然有呼吸、心跳同埋反射動作,仲生存緊嘅病人(量詞:個)
Examples
手術之後,佢冇醒到,變成咗植物人。
She didn't regain consciousness after the surgery and was left in a vegetative state.
Sources: cc-cedict, rime-cantonese, words.hk