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clinically dead en · ADJ

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) In a state in which usual medically observable vital signs—such as respiration, heartbeat, and corneal reflex—are not present, but from which patients are sometimes revived.
    • Twelve dogs have been brought back to life with no signs of permanent damage after being clinically dead for two hours. 1974, “Natural Sciences: Supercooling dogs,”, in Science News, volume 106, number 23, page 360:

Relateds

clinical death · brain-dead