OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 49398

clinical death

Meanings (ES + gloss)
muerte clínica
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.
The body dies in stages, beginning at clinical death, then brain death, biological death, and finally, cellular death.
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