Also used simply to mean "to render very sedated.""That guy in 304 was pretty agitated, so I gorked him with a bunch of Ativan."
The definition involving 'severe and irreversible damage' is listed on dictionary.com and on the infoplease dictionary. Word Spy, The Grandiloquent Dictionary, Worthless Word for the Day, and the acronym database gives the following -A person with unknown ailments. An acronym for "God only really knows."
noun Medicine/Medical Slang: Disparaging and Offensive.a patient whose brain has suffered severe and irreversible damage and whose vital functions are being maintained by artificial means.
Also used simply to mean "to render very sedated."
"That guy in 304 was pretty agitated, so I gorked him with a bunch of Ativan."
The definition involving 'severe and irreversible damage' is listed on dictionary.com and on the infoplease dictionary.
Word Spy, The Grandiloquent Dictionary, Worthless Word for the Day, and the acronym database gives the following -
A person with unknown ailments. An acronym for "God only really knows."
noun Medicine/Medical Slang: Disparaging and Offensive.
a patient whose brain has suffered severe and irreversible damage and whose vital functions are being maintained by artificial means.