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brain death

DEFINITIONS OF: brain death

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

Synonyms:
cerebral death
Type of:
death
the permanent end of all life functions in an organism or part of an organism
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