"brain death" meaning in English

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Noun

Head templates: {{en-noun|-}} brain death (uncountable)
  1. (medicine) An irreversible loss of brain function and cessation of brain activity. Wikipedia link: brain death Tags: uncountable Categories (topical): Death, Medicine Related terms: brain-dead, clinical death, persistent vegetative state, coma, comatose Translations (irreversible cessation of brain activity): موت دماغي (Arabic), գլխուղեղի մահ (glxuġeġi mah) (Armenian), смерць мозга (smjercʹ mózha) [feminine] (Belarusian), mort cerebral (Catalan), hjernedød [common-gender] (Danish), hersendood (Dutch), cerba morto (Esperanto), aivokuolema (Finnish), mort cérébrale [feminine] (French), Hirntod [masculine] (German), εγκεφαλικός θάνατος (egkefalikós thánatos) (Greek), מוות מוחי (Hebrew), मस्तिष्क मृत्यु (mastiṣk mŕtyu) (Hindi), agyhalál (Hungarian), heiladauði [masculine] (Icelandic), kematian otak (Indonesian), bás inchinne [masculine] (Irish), morte cerebrale [feminine] (Italian), 脳死 (nōshi) (alt: のうし) (Japanese), 뇌사 (noesa) (Korean), smadzeņu nāve (Latvian), smegenų mirtis [feminine] (Lithuanian), mati otak (Malay), മസ്തിഷ്കമരണം (mastiṣkamaraṇaṁ) (Malayalam), hjernedød (Norwegian), مرگ مغزی (Persian), śmierć mózgu [feminine] (Polish), morte cerebral [feminine] (Portuguese), morte encefálica [feminine] (Portuguese), muerte cerebral [feminine] (Spanish), muerte encefálica [feminine] (Spanish), hjärndöd [common-gender] (Swedish), beyin ölümü (Turkish), смерть мозку (smertʹ mozku) [feminine] (Ukrainian), chết não (Vietnamese)

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