CEREBRAL DEATH

Pronunciation (US):

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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 ("cerebral 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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