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Brain death

British pronunciation/bɹˈeɪn dˈɛθ/
American pronunciation/bɹˈeɪn dˈɛθ/
Brain death
[NOUN]
1

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

synonyms : cerebral death
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1It's brain death.
2Brain death, in my opinion, has been this incredible gift to health care, because--
3Before the 1960s, there wasn't really this codified definition of brain death.
4I don't know if brain death is death.
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