noun, Medicine/Medical Slang: Disparaging and Offensive.
1.
a patient whose brain has suffered severe and irreversible damage and whose vital functions are being maintained by artificial means.
Origin
1970-75; perhaps back formation from gorked (slang) anesthetized; apparently an expressive coinage
Slang definitions & phrases for gork
gork
noun
A stuporous or imbecilic patient; a patient who has lost brain function: The gork in that room has the ''O'' sign, did you notice?/ By any definition, a gork. Lived a few minutes(1980s+ Medical)
A despised person; dork, geek, jerk: Hubert is such a gork. His glasses are always falling off his nose, and he wears plaids with stripes(1980s+ Students)
verb
To sedate a patient heavily (1980s+ Medical)
[said to be fr God only really knows, referring to a patient with a mysterious ailment]