HyperDic English BRAIN ... brain death

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English 1 sense of the expression *brain death*:
NOUN	phenomenon	brain death, cerebral death	death when respiration and other reflexes are absent

Englishbrain death: 1 sense noun 1, phenomenon
Meaning	death when respiration and other reflexes are absent; consciousness is gone; organs can be removed for transplantation before the heartbeat stops.
Synonym	cerebral death
Broader	death	The permanent end of all life functions in an organism or part of an organism
Spanish	muerte cerebral
Catalan	mort cerebral

HyperDicEnglishBRAIN ... brain death