brain death in the Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary

Translations for brain death in the French»English Dictionary

Translations for brain death in the English»French Dictionary

I.brain [Brit breɪn, Am breɪn] N

III.brain [Brit breɪn, Am breɪn] VB trans inf (knock out)

See also rack

death [Brit dɛθ, Am dɛθ] N

à sa mort

See also thousand

I.thousand [Brit ˈθaʊz(ə)nd, Am ˈθaʊz(ə)nd] N (figure)

III.thousand [Brit ˈθaʊz(ə)nd, Am ˈθaʊz(ə)nd] ADJ

IV.thousand [Brit ˈθaʊz(ə)nd, Am ˈθaʊz(ə)nd]

brain death in the PONS Dictionary

Translations for brain death in the English»French Dictionary

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Brain death is one of the deciding factors when pronouncing a trauma patient as dead.
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The first more powerful jolt of electric current was designed to pass through the head and cause immediate unconsciousness and brain death.
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This internal bleeding spreads through the internal organs and eventually leads to compression and brain death.
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It is also used to diagnose sleep disorders, coma, encephalopathies, and brain death.
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Brain death occurs within minutes and the heartbeat stops shortly after.
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Prior to the recognition of brain death in the 1980s, all deceased organ donors had died of circulatory death.
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A massive brain hemorrhage a few days later led to brain death.
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If hypoxia lasts for long periods of time, coma, seizures, and even brain death may occur.
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So he was kept on life support awaiting the official declaration of brain death and subsequent organ harvesting.
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Brain death is used as an indicator of legal death in many jurisdictions, but it is defined inconsistently.
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