vegetative (redirected from vegetatively)

vegetative /veg·e·ta·tive/ (vej?e-ta?tiv)

1. of, pertaining to, or characteristic of plants.

2. concerned with growth and nutrition, as opposed to reproduction.

3. of or pertaining to asexual reproduction, as by budding or fission.

4. functioning involuntarily or unconsciously.

5. resting; denoting the portion of a cell cycle during which the cell is not replicating.

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veg·e·ta·tive (vj-ttv)

adj.

1. Of, relating to, or capable of growth.

2. Of or functioning in processes such as growth or nutrition rather than sexual reproduction.

3. Of or relating to asexual reproduction, such as fission or budding.

4. Of or relating to the resting stage of a cell or its nucleus.

5. Of or relating to a pathological vegetation.

6. Of or being a state of grossly impaired consciousness, as after severe head trauma or brain disease, in which an individual is incapable of voluntary or purposeful acts and only responds reflexively to painful stimuli.

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vegetative

1. concerned with growth and nutrition.

2. functioning involuntarily or unconsciously.

3. resting; denoting the portion of a cell cycle during which the cell is not replicating.

4. pertaining to plants.

5. asexual reproduction.

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inherited vegetative dermatosis

see dermatosis vegetans.

vegetative nervous system

autonomic nervous system.

vegetative state

in neurological assessment, the animal is in a coma, but can be aroused. There is brainstem activity but cortical responses are absent.