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clinical deaths

clinical deaths is the plural of clinical death.

Meaning of clinical death

Noun

clinical death (countable and uncountable, plural clinical deaths)

  1. 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.
    • The body dies in stages, beginning at clinical death, then brain death, biological death, and finally, cellular death.1988, Andrea K. Scott, “Death Unto Life: Anencephalic Infants as Organ Donors,”, in Virginia Law Review, volume 74, number 8, page 1533

Questions about clinical deaths

What is clinical deaths the plural of?
Clinical deaths is the plural of clinical death.

Words near clinical deaths in the dictionary

  1. clinic
  2. clinical
  3. clinical biochemistry
  4. clinical chemistry
  5. clinical death
  6. clinical deaths
  7. clinical depression
  8. clinical depressions
  9. clinical diagnoses
  10. clinical diagnosis
  11. clinical equipoise

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