nightmare vs persistent vegetative state

nightmare

noun
  • A feeling of extreme anxiety or suffocation experienced during sleep; Sleep paralysis. 

  • Any bad, miserable, difficult or terrifying situation or experience that arouses anxiety, terror, agony or great displeasure. 

  • A very bad or frightening dream. 

verb
  • To have a nightmare. 

persistent vegetative state

noun
  • A condition of patients with severe brain damage in whom coma has progressed to a state of wakefulness without awareness. 

How often have the words nightmare and persistent vegetative state occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )