clinical death

English

Noun

clinical death (countable and uncountable, plural clinical deaths)

1. (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,”, in Virginia Law Review, volume 74, number 8, page 1533:

     The body dies in stages, beginning at clinical death, then brain death, biological death, and finally, cellular death.

Related terms

• clinically dead

Translations

state in which usual vital signs are not present

• Albanian: vdekja klinike
• Arabic: موت سريري
• Armenian: կլինիկական մահ (hy) (klinikakan mah)
• Azerbaijani: klinik ölüm
• Belarusian: клінічная смерць f (kliničnaja smjercʹ)
• Bulgarian: клинична смърт f (klinična smǎrt)
• Czech: klinická smrt f
• Dutch: klinisch dood
• Esperanto: klinika morto
• Estonian: kliiniline surm
• Finnish: kliininen kuolema
• French: mort clinique f
• German: klinischer Tod m
• Hebrew: מוות קליני
• Hungarian: klinikai halál
• Latvian: klīniskā nāve f
• Lithuanian: klinikinė mirtis f
• Mongolian: эмнэлзүйн үхэл (emnelzüjn üxel)
• Persian: مرگ بالینی
• Polish: śmierć kliniczna f
• Romanian: moarte clinică f
• Russian: клини́ческая смерть (ru) f (kliníčeskaja smertʹ)
• Serbo-Croatian: klìničkā smȑt f
• Slovene: klinična smrt f
• Spanish: muerte clínica f
• Ukrainian: кліні́чна смерть f (kliníčna smertʹ)
• Vietnamese: chết lâm sàng

See also

• brain death
• information-theoretic death

References

• “clinical death”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.