brain death

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Once she was left without breathing machine, she would die. It is conforming to the brain-death standard.
她一旦离开呼吸机，就会死亡，这符合了脑死亡的标准。
In fact, there are drugs being developed right now — who knows if they'll ever make it to the market — that may actually slow down the process of brain-cell injury and death.
事实上，现在正在研发的某些药物，可以真正做到延缓脑细胞受损的过程，延缓死亡，不过我不清楚这种药物是否已经供应市场。
The Munich University team believe a larger head means there are greater brain reserves to buffer against dementia-related brain cell death.
慕尼黑大学团队认为，头比较大意味大脑容量较多，能为对抗失智症相关脑细胞的死亡提供缓冲。
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Because livers donated after cardiac death have sometimes been linked to worse outcomes after transplant compared to brain-death donations, the fact that more cardiac-death organs were discarded did not surprise the researchers.
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Nor is there proof that protein clusters cause brain-cell death rather than merely result from it.
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the situation in which a person's brain stops working and they need machines in order to stay alive

Brain death occurs when someone's brain stops functioning, even though their heart may be kept beating using a machine.

脑死亡
Chapter 6 discussed the brain death 、 repaid organ donation and organ exchange、 the management organizations and their legal status.
第六章对与器官移植立法有关的脑死亡、器官有偿捐献与器官交易、器官移植组织及其法律地位问题进行了探讨。