If the patient appears awake but is unaware, due to the permanent loss of all activity in the cortex, and has been this way for at least 4 weeks, the patient is said to be ______.

A. clinically dead
B. in a vegetative state
C. in a persistive vegetative state
D. whole brain dead


Answer: C

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