How to Use brain death in a Sentence

brain death

noun

• At the time, brain death was not sufficient; the heart had to have stopped on its own.
  — oregonlive, 5 Oct. 2019
• At first, brain death advocates said this is a matter of hours.
  — Dick Teresi, Discover Magazine, 19 Feb. 2012
• None of the patients met criteria for brain death at baseline.
  — Neuroskeptic, Discover Magazine, 3 Mar. 2017
• Since then, however, there are many who have argued that brain death should simply mean death.
  — WIRED, 21 Mar. 2023
• Menees said the most common reason for people to withdraw care is brain death.
  — George Stoia, Detroit Free Press, 2 June 2018
• Strict criteria exist for declaring brain death, and lack of a heartbeat is not among them.
  — Christina Han, Scientific American, 23 Jan. 2023
• Washington’s brain death was confirmed the next day at a hospital.
  — Emerson Clarridge, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 14 Jan. 2026
• Collectively, the research proved that brain death wasn’t a single event.
  — Matthew Shaer, New York Times, 2 July 2019
• McClain was an organ donor, he was taken off life support three days after his brain death.
  — Kieran Nicholson, The Denver Post, 8 Nov. 2019
• For each minute the heart is not pumping blood, there is about a 7-10 percent chance for the loss of life due to brain death.
  — Patricia Dillon, Houston Chronicle, 10 Mar. 2018
• The rabies virus attacks the central nervous system and causes disease and brain death.
  — From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 1 Oct. 2021
• McMath's case sparked debate over brain death and religious beliefs.
  — CBS News, 29 June 2018
• White believed that only brain death—the cessation of the brain’s electrical signals—meant true death.
  — Howard Schneider, WSJ, 21 Feb. 2021
• Keeping a body going for more than a week after brain death is typically difficult.
  — Joanna Thompson, Scientific American, 20 Jan. 2022
• By the time the error was realized, the patient suffered cardiac arrest and partial brain death.
  — Mariah Timms, USA TODAY, 13 May 2022
• At the emergency room, doctors observed symptoms consistent with brain death, and she was pronounced dead the next day.
  — Amanda Lee Myers, USA Today, 9 Oct. 2025
• At the emergency room, doctors observed symptoms consistent with brain death.
  — Brandi D. Addison, Austin American-Statesman, 21 Oct. 2024
• Bioethicists argue that using brain death as the standard definition values what is unique about humans.
  — The Economist, 26 Apr. 2018
• In other cases, including when a donor dies of heart failure instead of brain death, the organs are removed at the donor’s hospital.
  — Jon Healey, Los Angeles Times, 28 Apr. 2023
• Doctors cannot take a medical history from a patient who suffered brain death after a car accident or drug overdose.
  — Benjamin Mazer, The Atlantic, 11 May 2021
• The rabies virus attacks the central nervous system and causes disease and brain death, the department noted.
  — CBS News, 29 Sep. 2021
• The tests confirmed brain death, after which Daniel was pronounced dead according to Texas law, Hoosier said in the statement.
  — Nicole Lopez, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 5 Apr. 2024
• And since some aspects of this technology could presumably function even if the tissue donor was dead, would that change the definition of brain death?
  — Diana Gitig, Ars Technica, 28 Apr. 2018
• When Roberson brought Nikki to the emergency room, the child was not breathing, and doctors found evidence of brain death.
  — Alexis Simmerman, Austin American Statesman, 9 Oct. 2025
• Under state law, if a patient’s faith dictates that life persists so long as the heart is beating, then brain death alone is not sufficient for a legal declaration of death.
  — Mari A. Schaefer, Philly.com, 29 June 2018
• One woman gestated a fetus for 107 days after declaration of brain death.
  — Dick Teresi, Discover Magazine, 19 Feb. 2012
• Isolated head injuries are one of the leading causes of brain death, which is among the most common catalysts of organ donation, Cron said.
  — Raenu Charles, CNN, 1 Dec. 2022
• LiPuma is an associate professor of philosophy at Tri-C, whose work centers on end-of-life care and brain death.
  — Carol Kovach, cleveland, 29 Oct. 2019
• The locus of death shifted from the chest to the brain (and from public view into the private sphere of the hospital room), with the exact time of actual brain death uncertain.
  — Christof Koch, Scientific American, 11 Oct. 2019
• In Pennsylvania and most states, a diagnosis of brain death is enough to declare someone legally dead, meaning he or she can be taken off life support.
  — Mari A. Schaefer, Philly.com, 29 June 2018