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• 306, Butler Hall 26 January 1998 Vegetative Morphology I The Shoot .
•   Structures and associated botanical terminology discussed here for both vegetative and reproductive expressions relate, mostly, to the product of the apical or terminal shoot meristem and this pattern of activity defines a fundamental 'framework' of structural organization (see OSU Botany 300, source of the image left , for more detail). ...
•   However, most herbaceous flowering plants are annuals in that they show an annual cycle of seed germination, vegetative growth, and reproduction with the next generation passing the 'difficult' annual period (Winter, dry season) within the seed or fruit. ...   Many key players in the remarkable Texas Spring flora are Winter annuals that are in full vegetative growth during December and January.   Some angiosperms dedicate a full growing season to vegetative growth, sequester photosynthate - often in underground structures - through the difficult season and invest this in a reproductive effort at the start of the second year. ...

• The permanent vegetative state: practical guidance on diagnosis and management .
• Patients who survive catastrophic brain damage may be left permanently unawarein the permanent vegetative state. ...
• The diagnosis of permanent vegetative state is of particular importance; once it has been made, active medical treatment may be stopped. ...
• Criteria for diagnosing permanent vegetative state have been drawn up by various groups. ... In contrast to the diagnosis of brain death, where a few specific clinical criteria can determine the state,8 the diagnosis of permanent vegetative state depends on providing evidence of a negative: a lack of awareness. ...
• The diagnosis of the vegetative state can be made only in a patient shown to be unaware of self and environment Published research varies in relation to prognosis and permanencecurrently, the vegetative state is considered permanent by 12 months at the latest In England and Wales, stopping artificial nutrition and hydration requires the approval of the High Court The patient is represented legally by the official solicitor The question for the court is whether continued treatment will be in the patient's best interests .
• Patients in a permanent vegetative state may occasionally look towards noise or new visual stimuli, but any greater visual exploration of the environment should raise concern that they have some residual awareness. Visual tracking of large objects moving in the visual field may occur in patients in the permanent vegetative state, but this should always prompt careful evaluation of the state. ...
• There is no specific structural neuropathology underlying the permanent vegetative state. ...
• Errors in the diagnosis of the vegetative state do occur. ...
• The common causes of the permanent vegetative state include traumatic brain injury and diffuse cerebral anoxia, 5 6 13 but any cause of acute generalised brain damage may lead to the permanent vegetative state. The examiner must consider whether any drugs being administered may be causing the vegetative state and, if there is any doubt about the diagnosis, might wish to re-examine the patient after these drugs have been withdrawn. ... It is accepted that in some cases of permanent vegetative state no definitive cause can be discerned. ...
• 5 6 It is generally accepted that recovery from the vegetative state rarely occurs after 12 months, 5 6 although recovery after this period has been reported. ...
• We know of one case in which experts on behalf of the plaintiff initially suggested that the patient was in the permanent vegetative state, but in which it was later argued (and disproved) that the patient wished to stop treatment. ...
• Survey of British clinicians' views on management of patients in persistent vegetative state. ...

• Aspergillus vegetative endocarditis and complete heart block in a patient with acute leukemia.
• Aspergillus flavus vegetative endocarditis together with myocardial abscesses and pneumonitis developed in a patient with acute lymphocytic leukemia. ...

• The vegetative state  clinical diagnosis.
• The vegetative state is one such disorder  not only in the controversies of how to treat but also whether to treat. The case of Tony Bland, a young man becoming vegetative due to severe anoxic brain damage when he was crushed in the Hillsborough football disaster, hit the headlines and has been the basis for much debate about withdrawal of nutrition and hydration, the right to die and euthanasia. The very high cost of caring for vegetative patients over several decades has important implications in legal cases and in the use of resources. ...
• The term `persistent vegetative state' (PVS) was coined by Jennett and Plum2 to describe a specific syndrome of reflex reactions without any meaningful response to the environment but in patients who have a sleep-awake pattern. ...
• There is nevertheless a dislike, especially amongst relatives of brain-damaged people, of the term `vegetative' mainly because of its association with the word `vegetable'. ...
• There has been an attempt in Israel by Groswasser and Sazbon10 to use the term `post-comatose unawareness' but this has not caught on in the rest of the world, probably because the term `vegetative state' is so ingrained in medical and legal terminology that it is difficult to accept a new term which is more wieldy. ...
• In addition some concern has been expressed about attaching the terms persistent and permanent in the terminology of the vegetative state. ... They expressed the view that `persistent vegetative state' was a diagnosis, while `permanent vegetative state' was a prognosis. The Multi-Society Task Force and others have placed arbitrary time periods on these terms with the term persistent usually describing those patients vegetative for more than one, three or 12 months according to aetiology; and the term permanent for those vegetative from a traumatic cause for more than one year. ...
• The generally accepted features of the vegetative state based on these various reports are: .
• It is of note that other authorities14 have regarded a blink to threat as evidence of cortical connection and therefore indicating that the patient is not vegetative. This is a very questionable approach since the concept of the vegetative state is the demonstration of awareness, not whether there are some cortical connections. The Multi-Society Task Force11 urges caution in making the diagnosis of the vegetative state if there is blinking to threat but does not go as far as to claim that, if present, it indicates that the patient is no longer vegetative. ...
• The main early sign that the patient is emerging from the vegetative state is that he begins to focus on and/or tracks a moving object or person. The difficulty here is that Andrews et al15 found that 60% of patients who were misdiagnosed as being vegetative were blind or had severe visual impairments which would make focussing an impossibility. ...

• Neuropathology in vegetative and severely disabled patients after head injury .
• OBJECTIVE: To discover if the neuropathology differs in head-injured patients who were in a vegetative state (VS) or were severely disabled at time of death. ...
• Neurometabolic coupling in the vegetative and minimally conscious states: preliminary findings.
• Differential responses in three thalamic nuclei in moderately disabled, severely disabled and vegetative patients after blunt head injury.
• Thalamic proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy in vegetative state induced by traumatic brain injury.
• The vegetative state.
• Residual cerebral activity and behavioural fragments can remain in the persistently vegetative brain.

• Ethical issues in diagnosis and management of patients in the permanent vegetative state .
• Gastrostomy feeding has been withdrawn from around 20 people diagnosed as being in the permanent vegetative state in the United Kingdom, inevitably resulting in their death from dehydration. ...
• The diagnosis of the permanent vegetative state cannot be absolutely certain There is no standard test of awareness and data on prognosis are limited Patients in the permanent vegetative state raise ethical issues concerning the nature of consciousness, quality of life, the value society attributes to life, and handling of uncertainty In an era of increasing demands on healthcare resources decisions have to be made about allocation of limited resources and how quality of life is to be judged .
•   Permanent vegetative state .
• The permanent vegetative state is diagnosed when a patient is unaware of himself or herself and his or her environment and there is no prospect of any change in this state by any means. ... 1-6 Nevertheless, the clinical diagnosis is not always easy because there is a spectrum from the vegetative state to full awareness. ... Usually the state is intermittent, with only vegetative responses being present at other times. ...
• Diagnosis of permanent vegetative state .
• Patients in the vegetative state are unable to give consent, both literally and legally (in terms of their mental capacity). ... "7 In every case the High Court has decided that a patient in the permanent vegetative state does not benefit from continued treatment and has given permission to stop treatment. ...
• 8-10 The law states that the patient in a permanent vegetative state has no interest but also concludes that treatment is not in the patient's best interests. ...
• This article focuses on the specific ethical aspects of managing patients who are (or may be) in the permanent vegetative state. It does not consider the ethical questions that may arise before the eventual diagnosis of permanent vegetative state. ...
• Recognising that the permanent vegetative state may exist and that treatment might be stopped.
• Diagnosing the vegetative state.
• It may, however, be illegal (and possibly unethical) to continue feeding once the patient is known or suspected to be in the permanent vegetative state. ...

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• For plants such as onions, garlic, tulip, daffodil, and hyacinth, the bulb is the unit of vegetative propagation. ...
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• Sanibel presents weekly vegetative course.
• Sanibel's vegetative committee will present its vegetation contractors competency exam on a weekly basis so that an adequate number of properly registered landscapers will be available.
• All landscapers should have a city vegetative competency card prior to doing any work on the island.

• FIRST-PERSON: 'Persistent Vegetative State' is often confusing.
• LOUIS (BP)--The Florida case of Terri Schiavo, the brain-injured woman at the center of a controversy surrounding attempts to remove her feeding tube, has focused national attention on one of the bioethical problems of our day -- the "Persistent Vegetative State. ...
• For example, the term Persistent Vegetative State, or PVS, has come to be applied to people who actually do show some signs of awareness. ...
• Persistent Vegetative State is not easily diagnosed. ...

• Home / Pennsylvania News Court reverses award of millions for woman in vegetative state.
• "In order to make a case for pain and suffering damages on behalf of a person in a persistent vegetative state, the plaintiff must present competent opinion testimony that the person should in fact experience such pain," wrote Senior Judge Phyllis W. ...

• Pope condemns euthanasia of "vegetative" patients .
• com) - Pope John Paul II (bio - news) has urged physicians to guard against the acceptance of passive euthanasia, and insisted on respectful treatment of all patients, including those who are judged to be in a "vegetative state. ...
• As a physician, I assure you that starvation and dehydration is a very cruel way to terminate life - vegetative, animal or human. ...
• Why did you continue to use the word "vegetative" in reference to a comatose patient, even after your statement that the Holy Father said this is a very poor word choice (which I have thought ever since I first heard it years ago as a young student nurse). ...

• Lab 2: Vegetative Characters.
• learn to recognize vegetative features such as thorns, spines, prickles, tendrils .
• practice keying with a key that uses vegetative characters.
• This lab deals with characters of the vegetative parts of a plant--roots, stems, twigs, and leaves.
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