"This CANNOT be found in a brain-dead patient," he wrote.
It could even be part of a larger scheme: India's zombification of the English language — killing words and phrases, and then bringing them back to life in a brain-dead disfigured form that seeks out healthy humans as prey.
A mechanical respirator can enable breathing, and thereby circulation, in a "brain-dead" patient a patient whose entire brain is irreversibly nonfunctional.
Moreover, acceptance of whole-brain criteria for death facilitates organ transplantation by permitting a declaration of death and retrieval of still-viable organs while respiration and circulation continue, with mechanical assistance, in a "brain-dead" body.
This happened recently in Texas, where a brain-dead pregnant woman was put on life support for weeks against her own wishes and those of her husband and parents.
Wadih Arap and Renata Pasqualini, a husband-and-wife team of cancer biologists at M. D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas, learned about a brain-dead 48-year-old man in the hospital's Intensive Care Unit.
The baby was born needing a heart transplant, and received one in January after the mother of a brain-dead baby in Illinois consented.
And in our constitutional system, a brain-dead minority party that spouts simple-minded slogans on TV and votes in rigid unison can be a serious obstacle to achieving anything.
Isabelle Dinoire, who lost her mouth and nose after a dog bite, made medical history in 2005 when she was given a partial face transplant using tissue from a brain-dead woman in a 15-hour operation at Amiens Picardie hospital.
She made medical history when she was given a partial face transplant using tissue from a brain-dead woman in a 15-hour operation at Amiens hospital in November.
