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  1. 1. Coma
  2. In medicine, a state of deep unconsciousness
  3. from which the subject cannot be roused and
  4. in which the subject does not respond to
  5. pain. Possible causes include head injury,
  6. liver failure, cerebral haemorrhage, and drug
  7. overdose.
  8.  
  9. 2. Coma
  10. In astronomy, the hazy cloud of gas and dust
  11. that surrounds the nucleus of a comet.
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