anencephaly

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a defect in brain development resulting in small or missing brain hemispheres

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anencephalia

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Because CBF was preserved, no apnea test and no second EEG were performed at H72 despite the absence of brain stem reflexes and a first flat EEG.

Rapid Brain Death following Cardiac Arrest without Intracranial Pressure Rise and Cerebral Circulation Arrest

Both are associated with the absence of brain blood flow--no blood flow, no neurological function.

When and by what criteria is it acceptable to declare death in DCD donors?

He added: "In the absence of brain injury and intercranial bleeding, it's probable her life may have been saved if she'd received prompt medical treatment."

'Struck in the head ..then again as she lay on patio' CELINE MURDER TRIAL DAY EIGHT

In fact, this activity is so fundamental to life that most nations now define death not by the absence of heartbeat or respiration, but by the absence of brain electrical activity.

Brave new world: Dr. Eric Braverman's path to earlier detection and treatment of cognitive decline

* Three times, twice in the 1980s and again in 2006, the Vatican has signaled its acceptance of so-called "brain death," meaning reliance on the absence of brain activity to define death.

Sometimes bishops say yes

In the absence of brain tissue hemiation, surgical repair of the leak site in the dura can be performed conveniently via a transmastoid approach.

Cerebrospinal fluid otorrhea presenting in complicated chronic suppurative otitis media

In our case, the absence of brain tissue did not allow immunohistochemical staining or in situ hybridization.

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