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SOMATIC DEATH [1 record]

Record 1 2013-12-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • General Medicine, Hygiene and Health
DEF

The cessation of all vital cellular activity.

OBS

Somatic death is ... the permanent, irreversible death [whereas] clinical death begins at the very onset of the symptoms of death [and] lasts for about four minutes ... After a short few minutes, ... the state of the body has gone from clinical death to somatic death ...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Médecine générale, hygiène et santé
DEF

Arrêt complet et définitif des fonctions vitales d'un organisme vivant, avec disparition de sa cohérence fonctionnelle et notamment de l'activité électrique du cerveau (tracé électroencéphalographique plat), et destruction progressive de ses unités tissulaires et cellulaires.

OBS

[...] dans le langage courant, la mort signifie la mort somatique.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Medicina, Higiene y Salud
DEF

Pérdida completa y permanente de las funciones vitales de un organismo.

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