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Definition of Brain death
1. Noun. Death when respiration and other reflexes are absent; consciousness is gone; organs can be removed for transplantation before the heartbeat stops.
Definition of Brain death
1. Noun. (medicine) An irreversible loss of brain function and cessation of brain activity. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Medical Definition of Brain death
1. Total cessation of brain function for 24 hours as manifested by absence of spontaneous movement, absence of spontaneous respiration, and absence of all brainstem reflexes. (12 Dec 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Brain Death
Literary usage of Brain death
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Clinical Lectures and Essays on Diseases of the Nervous System by John Syer Bristowe (1888)
"Purpura; effusion of blood into the brain. Death. MJB, a single woman, a cook,
aged fifty-seven, was admitted under my care on November 27, 1882. ..."
2. Handbook of Severe Disability: A Text for Rehabilitation Counselors, Other edited by Walter C. Stolov, Michael R. Clowers (2000)
"The size of the area of brain death partly depends on how much of the area ...
In addition to brain death associated with lost nourishment from the vessel ..."
3. Emerging Technologies And Ethical Issues In Engineering: Papers From A by National Academy of Engineering, National Academies (U.S.) (2004)
"The site of personhood to the Japanese is in the gut, which is one reason the
Japanese have been resistant to the idea of brain death and transplants. ..."
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