English Dictionary

brain-dead

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈbɹeɪnˌdɛd/

形容詞

比較不可 口語

(medicine, not comparable) Having an irreversible loss of brain function and cessation of brain activity. / (colloquial) Having no useful thoughts; stupid; ditzy.

日本語の意味

(医学用語) 脳の機能が不可逆的に失われ、脳活動が停止した状態、すなわち脳死を意味する。 / (口語) 有用な思考を欠き、愚かである、または頭の回転が遅い状態を意味する。

After the accident, doctors confirmed he was brain-dead and began discussing organ donation with his family.

事故の後、医師たちは彼が脳機能の不可逆的な喪失と脳活動の停止に陥っていることを確認し、家族と臓器提供について話し合いを始めました。

意味（1）

(medicine, not comparable) Having an irreversible loss of brain function and cessation of brain activity.

An employee of the mayor’s office was declared brain-dead on Sunday morning after she and another woman were struck by a hit-and-run driver while crossing Flatbush Avenue in Brooklyn, the authorities said.

意味（2）

(colloquial) Having no useful thoughts; stupid; ditzy.

“AI has been brain-dead since the 1970s,” said AI guru Marvin Minsky in a recent speech at Boston University. Minsky co-founded the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory in 1959 with John McCarthy.

more brain-dead （ comparative ）

most brain-dead （ superlative ）