clinically dead

British  

adjective

1. having no respiration, no heartbeat, and with no contraction of the pupils when exposed to a strong light

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Example Sentences

About a year later, follow-up coverage reported Medic One had already responded to more than 600 calls, including to 16 patients who were revived after being found “clinically dead,” Cobb said in an interview at the time.

From Seattle Times

Documentary director Mani Sandoval said “The Case for Heaven” focuses on documented cases of individuals whose near-death experiences allowed them to glimpse heaven, or something else a “clinically dead” person shouldn’t be able to perceive, before returning to consciousness.

From Washington Times

For years, he tried to put the account behind him, but repeatedly he faced heady stories of people experiencing other-worldly events, either when they had been pronounced clinically dead or thought they were close to it, before being wrestled back to life.

From The Guardian

“These are people who are clinically dead.”

From Seattle Times

“I said that the virus is clinically dead; I made a mea culpa for an out-of-tune expression but I repeat it in meaning,” he said.

From The Guardian