brain-dead
构词拆分
词源说明
From brain + dead. Coined by the Harvard physician Henry K. Beecher in the historical context of the Sixties counterculture and life extension technology of the late twentieth century.
释义(英文)
形容词 Adjective
- (medicine, not comparable) Having an irreversible loss of brain function and cessation of brain activity.
- (colloquial, derogatory) Having no useful thoughts