How to Use brain-dead in a Sentence

brain-dead

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• Two days later, doctors told her Elijah was brain-dead.
  — Audra D. S. Burch, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2023
• Three days later, he was declared brain-dead and taken off life support.
  — Aya Elamroussi, CNN, 23 Sep. 2023
• In 2022 a newborn named Owen Monroe became the first infant to receive such a transplant from a brain-dead newborn donor.
  — Tanya Lewis, Scientific American, 19 Mar. 2024
• He was declared brain-dead a day after the altercation.
  — Andrea Vacchiano, Fox News, 29 June 2023
• Angela suffered a seizure and was declared brain-dead on March 15 and later removed from life support.
  — Rebecca Rosenberg, Fox News, 23 Mar. 2023
• The Penn team plans to refine the procedure on an additional three brain-dead people.
  — Emily Mullin, WIRED, 18 Jan. 2024
• Nichols, who was placed on a ventilator upon arrival at the hospital, was also brain-dead at the time of his death, the report shows.
  — C Mandler, CBS News, 4 May 2023
• On a gurney, a brain-dead patient lay connected to a whirring Rube Goldberg-esque machine: a tangle of tubes and siphons on wheels.
  — Megan Molteni, STAT, 18 Jan. 2024
• Craig was charged with first-degree murder March 19 for spiking 43-year-old Angela Craig's protein shakes with cyanide and arsenic, which left the mother of six brain-dead.
  — Rebecca Rosenberg, Fox News, 29 Mar. 2023
• Watch on He later died after suffering from a stroke that left him brain-dead and being taken off life support.
  — Adrianna Freedman, Good Housekeeping, 20 July 2023
• Maddie was taken to the hospital, but three days later was declared brain-dead, Grobmeier said.
  — Alexandra Kukulka, Chicago Tribune, 26 June 2023
• Rushed by medics to Jacobi Medical Center, he was pronounced brain-dead and placed on life support.
  — Emma Seiwell, New York Daily News, 15 June 2024
• But before then, the researchers want to conduct more tests in people who are brain-dead, including those whose own liver is not functioning, and see whether the pig livers can function for up to one week.
  — Sara Reardon, Scientific American, 18 Jan. 2024
• These are usually victims of accidents or brain injuries who have been declared brain-dead but whose other organs will keep working as long as the body is kept on life support.
  — Tanya Lewis, Scientific American, 17 Oct. 2023
• The girl was taken to a hospital where she was pronounced brain-dead and eventually taken off life support, FOX 19 reported.
  — Brie Stimson, Fox News, 26 May 2024
• For the first time, organ donors who were declared brain-dead were moved out of the hospital and into an independent, freestanding center to have their organs removed.
  — Isabella Cueto, STAT, 25 June 2024
• These studies lasted days or weeks because of ethical concerns over how long experiments can be run on brain-dead people.
  — Emily Mullin, WIRED, 11 Oct. 2023
• Anthony was brain-dead and had no pulse when paramedics arrived at his family’s Lancaster home, prosecutors said.
  — Noah Goldbergstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 23 Feb. 2023
• Wiggs was initially arrested for first-degree domestic assault, The Star reported, as his wife was alive but brain-dead after the attack.
  — Ilana Arougheti, Kansas City Star, 7 June 2024
• Daniel was brain-dead and transported to a hospital, where his family ultimately decided to take him off life support.
  — Audrey Conklin, Fox News, 15 Nov. 2023
• Florida authorities arrested a suspect after his fight with a man outside a gas station last month allegedly caused the victim to go brain-dead.
  — Andrea Vacchiano, Fox News, 29 June 2023
• Surgeons had previously tested a pig kidney transplant on brain-dead patients.
  — Aliza Chasan, CBS News, 9 July 2024
• He was declared brain-dead Tuesday afternoon by the Lincoln County coroner, according to the criminal complaint.
  — Meredith Deliso, ABC News, 26 June 2024
• Keeping a pig kidney in a brain-dead person for such a long-time, Montgomery said, will help address questions raised by similar experiments in nonhuman primates.
  — Karen Weintraub, USA TODAY, 16 Aug. 2023
• The brain-dead do not usually respond to future life-affirming activities.
  — Joy Williams, Harper's Magazine, 14 Dec. 2022
• Police had investigated it as a felony DUI collision but said there would be no more investigative efforts after Heche was declared brain-dead.
  — Minyvonne Burke, NBC News, 25 Apr. 2024
• Spielberg and Anderson achieved narrative resolve and emotional cleansing, whereas the serial traumas of The Last of Us leave viewers feeling worked over, brainwashed, and accustomed to being the walking brain-dead.
  — Armond White, National Review, 1 Mar. 2023
• He had been declared brain-dead after rigorous attempts to resuscitate him were unsuccessful.
  — Sandra Rose Salathe, Peoplemag, 16 Sep. 2023
• Two other brain-dead human patients received pig kidneys that remained functional during a 54-hour experiment.
  — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Oct. 2023
• The wife’s condition deteriorated quickly after arriving at the hospital, and she was placed on a ventilator in intensive care, where she was declared medically brain-dead a short time later, police said.
  — Rebekah Riess, CNN, 20 Mar. 2023

Last Updated: 23 Dec 2024