Meaning Of The Word Brain death

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brain death
uncountable noun: Brain death occurs when someone's brain stops functioning, even though their heart may be kept beating using a machine.

brain death in American English
a condition in which all vital functions of the brain are determined to have irreversibly ceased: variously accepted as a legal concept of death
noun: complete cessation of brain function as evidenced by absence of brain-wave activity on an electroencephalogram: sometimes used as a legal definition of death

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