n.death when respiration and other reflexes are absent; consciousness is gone; organs can be removed for transplantation before the heartbeat stops

同義詞：cerebral death

[Brain death].
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The hemodynamic mechanisms of lung injury and systemic inflammatory response following brain death in the transplant donor.