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What does brain-dead mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word brain-dead? Here's what it means.

Adjective
  1. (medicine) Having an irreversible loss of brain function and cessation of brain activity.
  2. (colloquial) Having no useful thoughts; stupid; ditzy.
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A device to make the organs of brain-dead donors more suitable for transplant will be evaluated in a government-funded study.
Furthermore, Tri suggested brain-dead patients donate their hearts, livers, eyes and other organs to those in need.
A 26-year-old brain-dead mother has died in a Virginia hospital after her life support was disconnected.
He said he would prepare legislation to sharply restrict the withdrawal of feeding tubes and other life support from brain-dead patients.
The brain-dead backup applet that comes with Windows NT is a classic example.
I once had a conversation with a fairly well-known bioethicist about his experience turning off the ventilator on his brain-dead father.

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