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== Signs and symptoms == General symptoms of a person in a comatose state are: * Inability to voluntarily open the eyes * A nonexistent sleep–wake cycle * Lack of response to physical ([[Pain|painful]]) or verbal [[Stimulation|stimuli]] * Depressed [[Brainstem#Clinical significance|brainstem reflexes]], such as [[Pupillary light reflex|pupils not responding to light]] * Abnormal, difficulty, or irregular breathing or no breathing at all when coma was caused by [[cardiac arrest]] * Scores between 3 and 8<ref>{{cite web|title=Glasgow Coma Scale|author=Russ Rowlett|publisher=University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill|url=http://www.unc.edu/~rowlett/units/scales/glasgow.htm|access-date=2010-12-07|archive-date=2018-06-04|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180604074017/http://www.unc.edu/~rowlett/units/scales/glasgow.htm|url-status=dead}}</ref> on the [[Glasgow Coma Scale]]<ref name="RR" />
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