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The 15 pages that link to Coma, each with the reason it gives.

• SleepCompared with: Its unresponsiveness lacks sleep’s ordinary reversibility and arousability.

• Brain deathCompared with: Unlike brain death, coma can be reversible and does not by itself meet criteria for death.

• SedativeCompared with: Deep sedation can resemble unconsciousness, but coma is a pathological state rather than a treatment goal.

• Locked-in syndromeCompared with: Unlike locked-in syndrome, coma involves absent wakeful awareness.

• WakefulnessCompared with: Coma illustrates the severe loss of wakefulness and responsiveness.

• DyingCompared with: A coma is profound unconsciousness, not by itself irreversible loss of vital functions.

• LethargyCompared with: Coma marks a profound loss of consciousness, unlike the milder reduced alertness often called lethargy.

• CatalepsyCompared with: Catalepsy may preserve some awareness and postural responses, unlike coma.

• Death (law)Compared with: Coma is severe impairment of consciousness, not itself a legal determination of death.

• General anaestheticCompared with: Unlike anaesthesia, coma is not a deliberately induced, promptly reversible clinical state.