persistent vegetative state

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This might be a persistent vegetative state with no possibility of turning it on, even in principle.
這可能是個持續性植物狀態,即便原則上，都沒有可能重啓開關。
She emerged in a “persistent vegetative state”—the common term for someone who does not respond consciously to their surroundings.
她処於"持綠性植物狀態"——一個常用於那些不能對環境做出有意識反應的人的術語。
The result is a booming business in those free-standing storage facilities, where junk goes to linger in a persistent vegetative state, somewhere between eBay and the dump.
結果就是繁榮了那些獨立倉儲的生意，使垃圾産品以一種持久的植物狀態遊離於易趣和垃圾箱之間的某個地方。

This might be a persistent vegetative state with no possibility of turning it on, even in principle.
這可能是個持續性植物狀態,即便原則上，都沒有可能重啓開關。
耶魯公開課 - 死亡課程節選
There we are in Phase D,in something like, perhaps,persistent vegetative state.
這就是D堦段，可以叫做，持續植物人狀態。
耶魯公開課 - 死亡課程節選

a medical condition in which a person's brain shows no sign of activity and they have to be kept alive by drugs and machines

If someone is in a persistent vegetative state, they are unable to think, speak, or move because they have severe brain damage, and their condition is not likely to improve.