See Also: electrocerebral silence(medicine)
electrocerebral inactivity(medicine)
Silence(medicine)
silence(dictionary)
Silence of the Lambs, The(dictionary)
silence 1, noun(dictionary)
silence 2, verb(dictionary)
Estoppel By Silence(law)

ergotoxine (iou) and electrocerebral silence (medicine)


ergotoxine (iou)



ergotoxine noun. E20.
[from ERGOT + TOXIN + -INE5.]
Medicine. An oxytocic mixture of three ergot alkaloids, used in obstetrics and to treat migraine; an alkaloid in such a mixture.

electrocerebral silence (medicine)


electrocerebral silence
Flat or isoelectric encephalogram; an electroencephalogram with absence of cerebral activity over 2 uv from symmetrically placed electrode pairs 10 or more centimeters apart, and with interelectrode resistance between 100 and 10,000 ohms; if such a record is present for 30 minutes in a clinically brain dead adult and if drug intoxication, hypothermia, and recent hypotension have been excluded, the diagnosis of cerebral death is supported.

Synonym: electrocerebral inactivity, flat electroencephalogram, isoelectric electroencephalogram.