Search Result for "brain death":
Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. death when respiration and other reflexes are absent; consciousness is gone; organs can be removed for transplantation before the heartbeat stops;
[syn: brain death, cerebral death]



WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

brain death
    n 1: death when respiration and other reflexes are absent;
         consciousness is gone; organs can be removed for
         transplantation before the heartbeat stops [syn: brain
         death, cerebral death]