Coma vs. Comma

Comanoun

A state of unconsciousness from which one may not wake up, usually induced by some form of trauma.

Comanoun

(astronomy) A cloud of dust surrounding the nucleus of a comet.

Comanoun

(optics) A defect characterized by diffuse, pear-shaped images that should be points.

Comanoun

(botany) A tuft or bunch, such as the assemblage of branches forming the head of a tree, a cluster of bracts when empty and terminating the inflorescence of a plant, or a tuft of long hairs on certain seeds.

Comanoun

A state of profound insensibility from which it is difficult or impossible to rouse a person. See Carus.

Comanoun

The envelope of a comet; a nebulous covering, which surrounds the nucleus or body of a comet.

Comanoun

A tuft or bunch, - as the assemblage of branches forming the head of a tree; or a cluster of bracts when empty and terminating the inflorescence of a plant; or a tuft of long hairs on certain seeds.

Comanoun

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

Comanoun

a usually terminal tuft of hairs especially on a seed

Comanoun

(astronomy) the luminous cloud of particles surrounding the frozen nucleus of a comet; forms as the comet approaches the sun and is warmed

Coma

A coma is a deep state of prolonged unconsciousness in which a person cannot be awakened, fails to respond normally to painful stimuli, light, or sound, lacks a normal wake-sleep cycle and does not initiate voluntary actions. Coma patients exhibit a complete absence of wakefulness and are unable to consciously feel, speak or move.

Commanoun

(typography) The punctuation mark ⟨,⟩ used to indicate a set off parts of a sentence or between elements of a list.

Commanoun

A similar-looking subscript diacritical mark.

Commanoun

A European and North American butterfly, Polygonia c-album, of the family Nymphalidae.

Commanoun

(music) a difference in the calculation of nearly identical intervals by different ways.

Commanoun

(genetics) A delimiting marker between items in a genetic sequence.

Commanoun

In Ancient Greek rhetoric, a short clause, something less than a colon, originally denoted by comma marks. In antiquity it was defined as a combination of words having no more than eight syllables in all. It was later applied to longer phrases, e.g. the Johannine comma.

Commanoun

(figurative) A brief interval.

Commanoun

A character or point [,] marking the smallest divisions of a sentence, written or printed.

Commanoun

A small interval (the difference between a major and minor half step), seldom used except by tuners.

Commanoun

a punctuation mark (,) used to indicate the separation of elements within the grammatical structure of a sentence

Commanoun

anglewing butterfly with a comma-shaped mark on the underside of each hind wing

Comma

The comma , is a punctuation mark that appears in several variants in different languages. It has the same shape as an apostrophe or single closing quotation mark (’) in many typefaces, but it differs from them in being placed on the baseline of the text.