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Free sign upThe phrase "clinically dead" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It is typically used when someone is being described as being technically or medically dead, but may still be kept alive through artificial means such as a ventilator or life support. Example: The doctors declared the patient clinically dead after they were unable to revive him following a heart attack.
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clinically dead
adjective
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.
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But what exactly does it mean to be "clinically dead?" Clinical death occurs when the heart stops beating, thereby stopping the flow of blood to the brain, heart and body, according to the Sudden Cardiac Arrest Foundation.
At that point she was clinically dead.
He was clinically dead on the field.
He was, for a short time, declared clinically dead.
She was declared clinically dead on 9 December.
He was clinically dead for almost five minutes," Katylayn recalled.
Ron Costello was clinically dead in four seconds.
You kept playing when half your body was clinically dead".
Like many of its neighbouring countries, Austria's political centre ground is clinically dead.
He was clinically dead for six minutes before being revived by ambulance officers.
The institutions created after the fall of the colonels' regime in 1974 are clinically dead.
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