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brain death

a condition in which all vital functions of the brain are determined to have irreversibly ceased: variously accepted as a legal concept of death

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2005 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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