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Definition of brain-dead in English: brain-deadadjectiveˈbreɪndɛdˈbreɪnˌdɛd 1Having suffered brain death. Example sentencesExamples - A brain-dead Virginia woman on life support has given birth now to a baby girl.
- A 26-year-old brain-dead mother has died in a Virginia hospital after her life support was disconnected.
- The 380 cases may include turning off life support for brain-dead patients, with the consent of relatives, but the 88 cases are more of a concern.
- A brain-dead pregnant woman on life support has reached the milestone in her pregnancy where doctors believe the baby could realistically survive outside the womb, giving her family renewed hope about the devastating ordeal.
- In fact, after his stroke, his life was nearly terminated by his physicians, who believed he was brain-dead.
- Furthermore, Tri suggested brain-dead patients donate their hearts, livers, eyes and other organs to those in need.
- The people of Taiwan have every right to be outraged by the case of the four-year-old abuse victim recently declared brain-dead at a Taichung hospital.
- Sort has requested neurologists/neuro surgeons and anaesthesiologists to motivate close relatives of brain-dead patients to donate kidneys and other organs.
- A device to make the organs of brain-dead donors more suitable for transplant will be evaluated in a government-funded study.
- Thirty-two hours later she was clinically brain-dead, the result of a cerebral haemorrhage.
- He wound up in the same ward as Christian, in Cork University Hospital, brain-dead.
- He said he would prepare legislation to sharply restrict the withdrawal of feeding tubes and other life support from brain-dead patients.
- Some thought brain-dead patients were dead because they would never wake up again.
- I once had a conversation with a fairly well-known bioethicist about his experience turning off the ventilator on his brain-dead father.
- Heart specialists across the world now agree that transplants (from brain-dead patients) are hardly an option.
- Before that, the fetal neural structure is about as sophisticated as that of a sea slug and its EEG as flat and unorganized as that of someone brain-dead.
- A pediatric neurologist, he has studied nearly two hundred brain-dead patients who, with life-support, continued their organic synthesizing unity for significant periods of time.
- The first two are general to older patients: where the child was brain-dead, where he or she was in a permanent vegetative state.
- The bronchoscopy is normal in only 33% of all brain-dead donors.
- Well, these computer images illustrate the placement of the tissue and the muscle that were taken from a brain-dead donor after her family consented.
- 1.1informal Extremely stupid.
the brain-dead politics of the past Example sentencesExamples - What do you take us for, a bunch of brain-dead, no-sense-of-possession Weeds?
- There is a really brain-dead article about the current bankruptcy bill on Real Clear Politics by some woman who obviously knows nothing about either economics or business.
- The brain-dead backup applet that comes with Windows NT is a classic example.
- There really is no hope for these brain-dead dolts.
- Everyone tells their name, favorite color, band, food, etc. then everyone claps and everyone's happy and then everyone jumps off the cliff like the brain-dead little lemmings they are.
- Adults will not suffer the boredom often caused by the brain-dead blandness of too many ‘family films,’ but they won't be challenged or energized, either.
- Week after week we see gangs of brain-dead boneheads invade this part of town hellbent on violence and fuelled by alcohol.
- This is a bit above your average brain-dead guitarist.
- So, what, if I truly respected you I'd think you're just as brain-dead as I am?
- How can you tell if a political party is brain-dead?
- A surprisingly ambivalent entry in a genre that's usually brain-dead, Reggie Rock Bythewood's Biker Boyz mines intelligence by recognizing the contradictions inherent in its milieu.
- The AI is basically pathetic; although you have a great deal of control of your teammates through the relatively simple team-control commands, these guys are often as brain-dead as hockey pucks.
- This brain-dead effort was also designed and directed by Zeffirelli, who seems totally unconcerned with the opera's ambiguities, ideas that have intrigued and perplexed audiences for more than two centuries.
- Of course, I realize that nurses don't control nursing - anyone who believes that entirely is brain-dead.
- The third thing that we are going to endorse and focus on is smart, active policies, not the flat Earth, brain-dead approach of the National and ACT parties, which think that the market will deliver this country into the future.
- That was my favourite story to tell at sleepovers- and it, without a doubt, scared the- well, you know- out of my friends and cousins- and even Charlene, my brain-dead sister.
- It has enough appealing snippets to fill a 30-second TV promo, but, beyond that, it is brain-dead and character-less - a cynical attempt to lure children into theaters.
- I forget all my mid-90s micro-genre names, but there must be one for nine brain-dead minutes of window-rattling 180 bpm drum loops.
- Oh, so you found new brain-dead idiots to follow you and they somehow just made your ego so big that it can't fit through our front door?
- Most notably is the opening track ‘Cool Cool Breeze’ that would send everyone but the most brain-dead of Murphy fans running for their CD machines and heaving this out their apartment window.
Synonyms stupid, idiotic, brainless, imbecilic, imbecile, asinine, witless, foolish, empty-headed, vacuous, unintelligent, half-witted, dull, slow-witted, obtuse, weak-minded, feather-brained, doltish, blockish
Definition of brain-dead in US English: brain-deadadjectiveˈbreɪnˌdɛdˈbrānˌded 1Having suffered brain death. Example sentencesExamples - A 26-year-old brain-dead mother has died in a Virginia hospital after her life support was disconnected.
- A device to make the organs of brain-dead donors more suitable for transplant will be evaluated in a government-funded study.
- Thirty-two hours later she was clinically brain-dead, the result of a cerebral haemorrhage.
- Some thought brain-dead patients were dead because they would never wake up again.
- A brain-dead Virginia woman on life support has given birth now to a baby girl.
- A pediatric neurologist, he has studied nearly two hundred brain-dead patients who, with life-support, continued their organic synthesizing unity for significant periods of time.
- Heart specialists across the world now agree that transplants (from brain-dead patients) are hardly an option.
- In fact, after his stroke, his life was nearly terminated by his physicians, who believed he was brain-dead.
- He wound up in the same ward as Christian, in Cork University Hospital, brain-dead.
- The first two are general to older patients: where the child was brain-dead, where he or she was in a permanent vegetative state.
- I once had a conversation with a fairly well-known bioethicist about his experience turning off the ventilator on his brain-dead father.
- Well, these computer images illustrate the placement of the tissue and the muscle that were taken from a brain-dead donor after her family consented.
- Sort has requested neurologists/neuro surgeons and anaesthesiologists to motivate close relatives of brain-dead patients to donate kidneys and other organs.
- He said he would prepare legislation to sharply restrict the withdrawal of feeding tubes and other life support from brain-dead patients.
- Furthermore, Tri suggested brain-dead patients donate their hearts, livers, eyes and other organs to those in need.
- The 380 cases may include turning off life support for brain-dead patients, with the consent of relatives, but the 88 cases are more of a concern.
- A brain-dead pregnant woman on life support has reached the milestone in her pregnancy where doctors believe the baby could realistically survive outside the womb, giving her family renewed hope about the devastating ordeal.
- The bronchoscopy is normal in only 33% of all brain-dead donors.
- The people of Taiwan have every right to be outraged by the case of the four-year-old abuse victim recently declared brain-dead at a Taichung hospital.
- Before that, the fetal neural structure is about as sophisticated as that of a sea slug and its EEG as flat and unorganized as that of someone brain-dead.
- 1.1informal Extremely stupid.
the brain-dead politics of the past Example sentencesExamples - That was my favourite story to tell at sleepovers- and it, without a doubt, scared the- well, you know- out of my friends and cousins- and even Charlene, my brain-dead sister.
- How can you tell if a political party is brain-dead?
- The brain-dead backup applet that comes with Windows NT is a classic example.
- So, what, if I truly respected you I'd think you're just as brain-dead as I am?
- Oh, so you found new brain-dead idiots to follow you and they somehow just made your ego so big that it can't fit through our front door?
- Week after week we see gangs of brain-dead boneheads invade this part of town hellbent on violence and fuelled by alcohol.
- Most notably is the opening track ‘Cool Cool Breeze’ that would send everyone but the most brain-dead of Murphy fans running for their CD machines and heaving this out their apartment window.
- There really is no hope for these brain-dead dolts.
- It has enough appealing snippets to fill a 30-second TV promo, but, beyond that, it is brain-dead and character-less - a cynical attempt to lure children into theaters.
- Adults will not suffer the boredom often caused by the brain-dead blandness of too many ‘family films,’ but they won't be challenged or energized, either.
- I forget all my mid-90s micro-genre names, but there must be one for nine brain-dead minutes of window-rattling 180 bpm drum loops.
- Everyone tells their name, favorite color, band, food, etc. then everyone claps and everyone's happy and then everyone jumps off the cliff like the brain-dead little lemmings they are.
- This brain-dead effort was also designed and directed by Zeffirelli, who seems totally unconcerned with the opera's ambiguities, ideas that have intrigued and perplexed audiences for more than two centuries.
- A surprisingly ambivalent entry in a genre that's usually brain-dead, Reggie Rock Bythewood's Biker Boyz mines intelligence by recognizing the contradictions inherent in its milieu.
- Of course, I realize that nurses don't control nursing - anyone who believes that entirely is brain-dead.
- The third thing that we are going to endorse and focus on is smart, active policies, not the flat Earth, brain-dead approach of the National and ACT parties, which think that the market will deliver this country into the future.
- This is a bit above your average brain-dead guitarist.
- What do you take us for, a bunch of brain-dead, no-sense-of-possession Weeds?
- There is a really brain-dead article about the current bankruptcy bill on Real Clear Politics by some woman who obviously knows nothing about either economics or business.
- The AI is basically pathetic; although you have a great deal of control of your teammates through the relatively simple team-control commands, these guys are often as brain-dead as hockey pucks.
Synonyms stupid, idiotic, brainless, imbecilic, imbecile, asinine, witless, foolish, empty-headed, vacuous, unintelligent, half-witted, dull, slow-witted, obtuse, weak-minded, feather-brained, doltish, blockish
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