clinical death
English
Noun
clinical death (plural clinical deaths)
- (medicine, law) A state in which usual medically observable vital signs—such as respiration, heartbeat, and corneal reflex—are not present, but from which patients are sometimes revived.
- 1988, Andrea K. Scott, "Death Unto Life: Anencephalic Infants as Organ Donors," Virginia Law Review, vol. 74, no. 8, p. 1533,
- The body dies in stages, beginning at clinical death, then brain death, biological death, and finally, cellular death.
- 1988, Andrea K. Scott, "Death Unto Life: Anencephalic Infants as Organ Donors," Virginia Law Review, vol. 74, no. 8, p. 1533,
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Translations
state in which usual vital signs are not present
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References
- "clinical death" at OneLook® Dictionary Search.