cerebral death

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

   Synonymsbrain death

   Broaderdeath

Questions about cerebral death

What does cerebral death mean?

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

What is another word for cerebral death?

Close synonyms include brain death. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is cerebral death a common word?

cerebral death is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.