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  1. brain deadadjective

    having irreversible loss of brain function as indicated by a persistent flat electroencephalogram

    "was declared brain dead"

    Antonyms:
    live, alive(p)

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  1. Natalie Wood:

    We gave Evan the last rites and then we turned off her life support, she was declared brain dead…The hospital kept giving me a sliver of hope. I knew it was wrong, but I wanted it to be true. So I hung on for a week. It’s rough. I feel like I’ve been very, very beaten. I hurt from head to toe with the pain of losing my daughter.

  2. Mark McChesney:

    ... Within a matter of nine days he went from perfectly healthy to brain dead, all of a sudden he had a seizure and next thing you know, he's in the ER and he just never came out of it.

  3. Rick Langhart:

    They had determined that Erika had no brain activity and that because of her heart attacks they basically told us that she was brain dead and that's it.

  4. Erma Bombeck:

    Anybody who watches three games of football in a row should be declared brain dead.

  5. Randall Kallinen:

    98 pound special needs inmate brain dead after attack by 240 pound repeat violent offender with knife at understaffed Harris County jail, we shall get justice.


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