brain death

Coined by the Harvard physician Henry K. Beecher in the historical context of the Sixties counterculture and life extension technology of the late twentieth century. ^[1]

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brain death (uncountable)

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

• brain-dead

• clinical death
• persistent vegetative state
• coma / comatose