The patient who is stuporous, but reacts by withdrawing from painful stimuli, is said to be:
1. comatose.
2. lethargic.
3. semicomatose.
4. somnolent.
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A stuporous patient who reacts to pain is semicomatose; no reaction to pain is comatose.
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a. the health continuum c. self-concept b. imagery d. Maslow's hierarchy of needs
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a. absent. c. excelerated. b. bounding. d. greater than 4 cm.