Definition of "carus" [ca•rus]

• Coma with complete insensibility; deep lethargy (noun)

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• "Book 1, 31, line 13, 'Dis carus ipsis' — 'dear to heaven'."
• "They made this machine called a cara ... carus ... a round thing that plays really loud music and has statues of animals that go up and down and around in circles."
• "Gr. καρωτίδ-ες, f. καρούν ‘to plunge into deep sleep, to stupefy', because compression of these arteries is said to produce carus or stupor."