brain death

Noun

Meaning

death when respiration and other reflexes are absent; consciousness is gone; organs can be removed for transplantation before the heartbeat stops

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

cerebral death death departure demise brain dead end of life clinical death cardiac death clinically dead coma vigil complete and irreversible loss of brain function deep coma end-stage brain dysfunction end-stage coma catatonic coma

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Hypernyms

death

Examples

If the heart stops for more than two minutes, you have massive brain death. There are only two minutes between our conscious world and zero. That's how fragile our consciousness is. Maurice Gibb

It is certainly safe, in view of the movement to the right of intellectuals and political thinkers, to pronounce the brain death of socialism. Norman Tebbit

Health warning: On no account drink only one ingredient – liable to lead to tunnel vision, arrogance and possibly brain death. Ha-Joon Chang

Intellectual laziness is punishable by brain death. It is a natural law. Erik Naggum

Also, clinical death is not the same as brain death. Source: Internet

India India has a fairly well developed corneal donation programme; however, donation after brain death has been relatively slow to take off. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

brain cramp brain damage brain dead brain development brain developmental disorders brain discomfort