See Also: Coma(medicine)
coma(encyclopedia)
coma(2)(dictionary)
coma(1)(dictionary)
Coma(health)
coma(dictionary)
coma vigil(medicine)
uraemic coma(medicine)
Coma, diabetic(health)
coma cast(medicine)

coma(1) (iou)



coma noun1. . E17.
[Latin from Greek kome hair of the head.]
Botany. The top of a plant; esp. a terminal tuft of bracts or leaves; a leafy crown of branches; a tuft of silky hairs at the end of some seeds. E17.
Astronomy. The diffuse hazy region surrounding the nucleus of a comet. M18.
An optical aberration causing the image of an off-axis point to be flared, like a comet with a diverging tail; the flared image itself. M19.
co'matic adjective E20.