brain death

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Noun

brain death (uncountable)

1. (medicine) An irreversible loss of brain function and cessation of brain activity.

Related terms

• brain-dead

Translations

irreversible cessation of brain activity

• Afrikaans: breindood
• Arabic: موت دماغي
• Armenian: գլխուղեղի մահ (glxuġeġi mah)
• Belarusian: смерць мозга f (smjercʹ mózha)
• Catalan: mort cerebral
• Danish: hjernedød c
• Dutch: hersendood (nl)
• Esperanto: cerba morto
• Finnish: aivokuolema (fi)
• French: mort cérébrale (fr) f
• German: Hirntod (de) m
• Greek: εγκεφαλικός θάνατος (egkefalikós thánatos)
• Hebrew: מוות מוחי
• Hindi: मस्तिष्क मृत्यु (mastiṣk mŕtyu)
• Hungarian: agyhalál (hu)
• Icelandic: heiladauði m
• Indonesian: kematian otak
• Irish: bás inchinne m
• Italian: morte cerebrale (it) f
• Japanese: 脳死 (ja) (のうし, nōshi)
• Korean: 뇌사 (ko) (noesa)
• Latvian: smadzeņu nāve
• Lithuanian: smegenų mirtis f
• Malay: mati otak
• Malayalam: മസ്തിഷ്‌കമരണം (mastiṣ‌kamaraṇaṁ)
• Norwegian: hjernedød
• Persian: مرگ مغزی
• Polish: śmierć mózgu f
• Portuguese: morte cerebral f, morte encefálica f
• Spanish: muerte cerebral f, muerte encefálica f
• Swedish: hjärndöd (sv) c
• Turkish: beyin ölümü
• Ukrainian: смерть мозку f (smertʹ mozku)
• Vietnamese: chết não

See also

• clinical death
• persistent vegetative state
• coma / comatose