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Definition of Cerebral death
1. Noun. Death when respiration and other reflexes are absent; consciousness is gone; organs can be removed for transplantation before the heartbeat stops.
Medical Definition of Cerebral death
1. A clinical syndrome characterised by the permanent loss of cerebral and brain stem function, manifested by absence of responsiveness to external stimuli, absence of cephalic reflexes, and apnea. An isoelectric electroencephalogram for at least 30 minutes in the absence of hypothermia and poisoning by central nervous system depressants supports the diagnosis. Synonym: brain death. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cerebral Death
Literary usage of Cerebral death
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1872)
"Aneurism of left middle cerebral. Death by rupture. (Church.11) CASK 17.—A boy, œt.
14. Convulsions and pains in lower extremities. Headache. ..."
2. Transactions of the Association of American Physicians by Association of American Physicians (1913)
"... cerebral death with apoplexy, coma, or convulsions. Cardiac insufficiency was
a conception which did not exist in Bright's day, and it is impossible ..."
3. A Treatise on apoplexy, cerebral hemorrhage, cerebral embolism, cerebral by John A. Lidell (1873)
"... simultaneously with the posterior cerebral, death might have much more speedily
followed the embolism; and that, in any case, ..."
4. The Retrospect of Practical Medicine and Surgery: Being a Half-yearly edited by William Braithwaite, James Braithwaite, Edmond Fauriel Trevelyan (1848)
"Cerebral sleep (sopor) ; pupils contracted ; dreams ; reflex functions of brain
and spinal marrow still active. cerebral death (coma) ..."
5. The Medical Formulary: Being a Collection of Prescriptions, Derived from the by Benjamin Ellis, Robert Pennell Thomas (1868)
"cerebral death (coma); reflex functions of the medulla and spinal marrow still
active. 5. Death of spinal marrow; cessation of respiration (heart's action ..."
6. The London Medical Gazette (1848)
"... effects ¡ — Cerebral excitement ¡cerebral disturbance; cerebral sleep, sopor,
the pupils contracted; cerebral death, coma, the pupils dilated. At p. ..."
7. Brain Abscess: Its Surgical Pathology and Operative Technic by Wells Phillips Eagleton (1922)
"... hemorrhages, perivascular infiltration, round-cell infiltration and associated
oedema—to which is added, after operation, cerebral death from trauma, ..."
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