In order to be declared brain dead, a person needs to have no activity in either the brain or brain stem, at the base of the brain. Credit: Johan Swanepoel | Shutterstock View full size image.n Jahi's case, three doctors have concluded that she is brain-dead. However, the heart's intrinsic electrical system can keep the organ beating for a short time after a person becomes brain-dead â in fact, the heart can even beat outside the body, Greene-Chandos said.
Noun. 1. anisotropy-the property of being anisotropic; having a different value when measured in different directions. property-a basic or essential attribute shared by all members of a class; a study of the physical properties of atomic particles.
Anisocytosis is a medical term meaning that a patient's red blood cells are of unequal size. This is commonly found in anemia and other blood conditions. False diagnostic flagging may be triggered by an elevated WBC count, agglutinated RBCs, RBC fragments, giant platelets or platelet clumps. In addition, it is a characteristic feature of bovine blood. The red cell distribution width (RDW) is a measurement of anisocytosis and is calculated as a coefficient of variation of the distribution of RBC volumes divided by the mean corpuscular volume (MCV) Anisocytosis is identified by RDW and is classified according to the size of RBC measured by MCV.