Brain death and Somatic death

Brain death noun - Death when respiration and other reflexes are absent; consciousness is gone; organs can be removed for transplantation before the heartbeat stops.

Somatic death and brain death are semantically related. in cerebral death topic. In some cases you can use "Somatic death" instead a noun phrase "Brain death".

Brain death and somatic death are semantically related. Sometimes you can replace phrase "Brain death" with "Somatic death", this phrases are similar.