vegetative being

基本解释

The moment it was discovered he was not in a vegetative state, said Houben, was like being born again.
胡本说，被发现他不是植物人的那一刻，他仿佛重生了。
Sadly, in my work outside of the RHN I meet many patients who have never had a proper assessment and have been wrongly diagnosed as being in a vegetative state.
令人难过的是，在神经失能科的工作以外的地方，我看到过许多没有做过适当评估的病人，他们被错误的诊断为植物人状态。
Researchers used a portable electroencephalography (EEG) device to record electrical signals from the brains of 16 patients diagnosed as being in a vegetative state.
研究人员使用携带型脑电图仪记录了16名被诊断为处于植物人状态的患者大脑中传来的电子信号。

The odds of recovery drop to almost zero after a year of being vegetative.
FORBES: Twilight Zone
Finally, they gave the instructions to a patient who had been diagnosed as being vegetative two years earlier.
ECONOMIST: Vegetative state