braindead
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7.9
Having no brain activity and being considered dead by doctors
- adjective
- /ˈbreɪnˌdɛd/
- Specialized
:
con muerte cerebral
- After the accident, the doctors confirmed that he was braindead and could not recover.
Examples
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The neurologist explained that when someone is braindead, there is no brain activity at all.
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- I'm no doctor, but I think he's braindead.
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Kimmie, having a few brain cells die, most definitely does not mean that you will become "clinically braindead"...
Blog text (17) -
In her research, she found that individuals classified as braindead have irreversible loss of all brain functions.
Synonyms
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7.4
A person with no brain activity and no chance to get better, though the body may still work
is about being legally or clinically declared dead rather than only test proof
How Conscious
Surface Forms
braindead positive
Morphology
Etymology
The word braindead comes from brain and dead, and here it is literal: the brain has stopped working. In medicine it means a person has lost all brain function and cannot recover, so they are treated as legally or clinically dead.