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brain death

permanent, irreversible, total cessation of brain function
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Summary

brain death ranks in the top 0.95% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (8,240 views/month, #736 of 77,819).[1]

Key Facts

  • Followed by: information-theoretic death[2]
  • Subclass of: unconsciousness[3], death[4], encephalopathy[5]
  • Commons category: Brain death[6]
  • Has part(s): cerebral death[7], brain stem death[8]
  • Has cause: brain injury[9], cerebrovascular disease[10], hanging to death[11], asphyxia[12]
  • Anatomical location: brain[13]
  • Has characteristic: irreversibility[14]
  • NCI Thesaurus ID: C116340[15]
  • Different from: death[16]
  • P14483: m/muerte-cerebral[17]
  • P14541: Sln5I[18]

Why It Matters

brain death has Wikipedia articles in 27 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[19] It is known by 54 alternative names across languages and contexts.[20]

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Direct Wikidata claims

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  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [19] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [20] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Edit History

Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 4w ago · Charp238 · 2026-09-17 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14483 → m/muerte-cerebral
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ P14483: m/muerte-cerebral"
  2. 10w ago · Susmuffin · 2026-08-05 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Has characteristic → irreversibility
    Anatomical location → brain
    Harper's tag → brain-death
    Subclass of → unconsciousness, death, encephalopathy
    + 2 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Harper's tag: brain-death, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289920114|brain death (#289920114)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7915|Harper's tag]] "
  3. 12w ago · Artoria2e5 · 2026-07-21 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Has part(s) → cerebral death, brain stem death
    P14483 → m/muerte-cerebral
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Has part(s): cerebral death"
  4. 14w ago · EleJur · 2026-07-08 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14483 → m/muerte-cerebral
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ P14483: m/muerte-cerebral, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/260063|batch #260063]]"
  5. 17w ago · Yirba · 2026-06-20 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14541 → Sln5I
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/37444|batch #37444]]: Encyclopedia of China (Third Edition) ID (2026) (P14541) 2"
  6. 21w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-18 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Has cause → brain injury, cerebrovascular disease, hanging to death +1
    Followed by → —
    Said to be the same as → —
    Different from → death
    + 4 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|3 */ Yso id: 11790, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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