Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun brain_death

1 sense of brain death

Sense 1
brain death, cerebral death -- (death when respiration and other reflexes are absent; consciousness is gone; organs can be removed for transplantation before the heartbeat stops)
       => death -- (the permanent end of all life functions in an organism or part of an organism; "the animal died a painful death")