HyperDic: cerebral_death

English > 1 sense of the expression cerebral death:
NOUNphenomenoncerebral death, brain deathdeath when respiration and other reflexes are absent
English > cerebral death: 1 sense > noun 1, phenomenon
Meaningdeath when respiration and other reflexes are absent; consciousness is gone; organs can be removed for transplantation before the heartbeat stops.
Synonymbrain death
BroaderdeathThe permanent end of all life functions in an organism or part of an organism
Spanishmuerte cerebral
Catalanmort cerebral

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