Stupor

Stupor
A patient in catatonic stupor
SpecialtyNeurology, Psychiatry

Stupor is the lack of critical mental function and a level of consciousness, in which an affected person is almost entirely unresponsive and responds only to intense stimuli such as pain. The word derives from the Latin stupor ("numbness, insensibility").

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