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Thesaurus: brain death
death when respiration and other reflexes are absent; consciousness is gone; organs can be removed for transplantation before the heartbeat stops
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- n. death when respiration and other reflexes are absent; consciousness is gone; organs can be removed for transplantation before the heartbeat stops