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BRAIN DEATH
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Death when respiration and other reflexes are absent; consciousness is gone; organs can be removed for transplantation before the heartbeat stops
Synonyms:
brain death; cerebral death
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural phenomena
Hypernyms ("brain death" is a kind of...):
death (the permanent end of all life functions in an organism or part of an organism)
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