noun. a state of deep and often prolonged unconsciousness; usually the result of disease or injury

""It is not a severe attack," my father wrote at the beginning, "yet it is attended by fits of exceeding discomfort, occasional comatoseness, and even delirium to the extent of making the poor child talk in rhythmic measure, like a tragic heroine -- as if the fever lifted her feet off the earth; the fever being seldom dangerous, but is liable to recur on slight occasion hereafter.""

unconsciousness  

diabetic coma  hepatic coma  kussmaul's coma  

coarseness  combativeness