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  • noun Medicine/Medical Slang: Disparaging and Offensive.

    a patient whose brain has suffered severe and irreversible damage and whose vital functions are being maintained by artificial means.

    January 4, 2007

  • The definition involving 'severe and irreversible damage' is listed on dictionary.com and on the infoplease dictionary.

    Word Spy, The Grandiloquent Dictionary, Worthless Word for the Day, and the acronym database gives the following -

    A person with unknown ailments. An acronym for "God only really knows."

    January 28, 2008

  • Also used simply to mean "to render very sedated."

    "That guy in 304 was pretty agitated, so I gorked him with a bunch of Ativan."

    January 30, 2008

  • The doctors could not explain the recovery of the terminal patient. It was a case of gork. God only really knows

    August 16, 2009