0 If someone is brain-dead, they have serious and permanent damage to their brain, and need machines in order to stay alive. --
By the time I leave work I'm completely brain-dead.
A triangle of face tissue, including the nose and mouth, was taken from a brain-dead female donor and grafted onto the patient.
Some rabbis prohibit removal of an organ from a brain-dead patient, making it impossible to perform heart transplants.
If a brain-dead individual is not an organ donor, ventilator and drug support is discontinued and cardiac death is allowed to occur.
The sixth class is now used for declared brain-dead organ donors.
Through technological advances, the government duplicates the personality of the agent (who remains unnamed throughout the series) and implants him into four brain-dead host bodies.
He said that the test would allow us to avoid the possibility of a brain-dead candidate.
The donor had been declared brain-dead before the operation.
He advertises an offer of a million dollars for the donation of a body from a brain-dead patient.