Sentence examples for functions of the entire brain from inspiring English sources
The commission culminated in the Uniform Determination of Death Act in 1981, which defined death as "irreversible cessation of all functions of the entire brain, including the brainstem".
Brain death requires "irreversible cessation of all functions of the entire brain, including the brain stem," according to a uniform legal definition used in almost all states.
According to the above arguments, the assumption that all functions of the entire brain (or those of the brainstem) in 'brain-dead' patients have ceased, is invalidated.
On December 11th, her doctor called the neurologist Robin Shanahan to determine, as the attending physician put it to the court, "whether or not Ms. McMath had sustained an irreversible cessation of all functions of the entire brain".
Like all states, California follows a version of the 1981 Uniform Determination of Death Act, which says that someone who has sustained the "irreversible cessation of all functions of the entire brain, including the brain stem, is dead".
To evaluate whether current clinical criteria and confirmatory tests for the diagnosis of 'brain death' satisfy the requirements for the irreversible cessation of all functions of the entire brain including the brainstem.
One defined death as "the irreversible cessation of all function of the entire brain, including the brain stem". Another required doctors to document that a patient or a surrogate - in the case of a mentally incompetent patient - had consented to ending life.
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.
The UDDA guidelines declare that either "irreversible cessation of circulatory functions" or "irreversible cessation of the entire brain, including brain stem" constitutes death [ 18].
According to the mainstream whole-brain approach, the human brain plays the crucial role of integrating major bodily functions so only the death of the entire brain is necessary and sufficient for a human being's death (Bernat, Culver, and Gert 1981).
