BRAIN DEATH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does brain death mean? 

• BRAIN DEATH (noun)
  The noun BRAIN DEATH has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: BRAIN DEATH used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BRAIN DEATH (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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural phenomena

Synonyms:

brain death; cerebral death

Hypernyms ("brain death" is a kind of...):

death (the permanent end of all life functions in an organism or part of an organism)