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Noun: brain death  breyn deth
  1. Death when respiration and other reflexes are absent; consciousness is gone; organs can be removed for transplantation before the heartbeat stops
    - cerebral death

Derived forms: brain deaths

Type of: death

Encyclopedia: Brain death

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