Sentence examples for cessation of function from inspiring English sources

The "irreversible cessation of function" of these organs results in brain and cardiac death, respectively.

For example, the organismic definition death as the irreversible cessation of functioning of the organism as a whole makes no reference to consciousness.

According to the whole-brain standard, human death is the irreversible cessation of functioning of the entire brain, including the brainstem.

Some champions of the traditional standard (e.g., Becker 1975) have conceptualized death in the same organismic terms that proponents of the whole-brain standard invoke: death as the irreversible cessation of functioning of the organism as a whole.

An advocate could respond by introducing a modified definition: In the case of any human being in possession of a functioning brain, death is the irreversible cessation of functioning of the entire brain.

Brain death — the cessation of brain function, as measured, in part, by two flat electroencephalograms, or EEGs, during a period of twenty-four hours — was a legal definition intended to allow surgeons to remove organs for transplant from patients whose hearts could be kept beating artificially without fear of being charged with homicide or wrongful death.

A major contention that motivates this thesis is that irreversible cessation of brain function will quickly lead to irreversible loss of cardiopulmonary function (and vice versa).

Cardiac death occurs after irreversible cessation of cardiac function.

Second, "irreversible cessation" of cardiac function meant that at least five minutes had to pass without a heartbeat.

The concept of brain death, defined as the irreversible cessation of brain function, started gaining worldwide acceptance in the late 1960s.

If the law required "irreversible" cessation of heart function, Boucek concluded, there was no reason to wait much longer than that.