Stupor

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").

Stupor
A patient in catatonic stupor
SpecialtyNeurology, Psychiatry
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