What does VS stand for?

Vegetative State

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Samples in periodicals archive:

A 12-YEAR sentence on a man for a brutal sectarian attack which left his victim in a vegetative state was affirmed yesterday.

Appeal on 12yrs jail thrown out; ATTACK

During the study, the researchers from University of Buenos Aires, Argentina, the University of Cambridge, UK and the Institute of Cognitive Neurology, Argentina used the classical Pavlonian conditioning to test the responsiveness of patients in vegetative state.

Patients in vegetative state can learn, say researchers

Her husband, Michael, said his wife would not have wanted to live in a vegetative state and had the feeding tube removed twice.

Terri Schiavo's father dies in Florida at 71

Englaro, who has been kept in a vegetative state since a car accident 17 years ago, will have her feeding tubes removed this week, Italian doctors said.

Vatican anger over euthanasia bid

Courts, politicians and the Vatican have weighed in on the fate of Eluana Englaro, who fell into a vegetative state following a car accident in 1992, when she was 20.

Italy: Man can end daughter's life support

Lilly's story brings to mind one of the most remarkable and highly publicized cases of a person in a long-term vegetative state.

Woman in coma alert after six years

Christa Lilly plunged into a vegetative state after a heart attack and stroke and, until this week, has been in a coma since November 2000.

Woman relapses after waking from six-year coma

Christa then slipped back into her vegetative state which docs say is like a coma -except her eyes stay open.

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