CEREBRAL DEATH
Dictionary entry overview: What does cerebral death mean? • CEREBRAL DEATH (noun)
The noun CEREBRAL 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: CEREBRAL DEATH used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• CEREBRAL DEATH (noun)
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 ("cerebral death" is a kind of...):
death (the permanent end of all life functions in an organism or part of an organism)
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