clinically dead
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[edit]clinically dead (not comparable)
- (medicine, law) 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.
- 1974, “Natural Sciences: Supercooling dogs,”, in Science News, volume 106, number 23, page 360:
- Twelve dogs have been brought back to life with no signs of permanent damage after being clinically dead for two hours.
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[edit]- “clinically dead”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.