clinically dead
adj1
Law, Medicine, Sciences 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.
- Twelve dogs have been brought back to life with no signs of permanent damage after being clinically dead for two hours.1974, “Natural Sciences: Supercooling dogs,”, in Science News, volume 106, number 23, page 360:
- Related terms
- clinical death, brain-dead