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Definition of Cause of death
1. Noun. The causal agent resulting in death. "Heart disease is the biggest killer in the United States"
Generic synonyms: Causal Agency, Causal Agent, Cause
Derivative terms: Kill, Kill
Medical Definition of Cause of death
1. Factors which produce cessation of all vital bodily functions. They can be analyzed from an epidemiologic viewpoint. (12 Dec 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cause Of Death
Literary usage of Cause of death
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Journal of Experimental Medicine by Rockefeller University, Rockefeller Institute, Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research (1919)
"EDEMA OF THE LUNGS AS A cause of death * BY MC WINTERNITZ, MD, AND RA LAMBERT,
MD (From the Department of Pathology of Yale University School of Medicine, ..."
2. A Manual of Medical Jurisprudence by Alfred Swaine Taylor (1897)
"IT is important for a medical witness to bear in mind that, in all cases o wounds
criminally inflicted, the cause of death must be certain, "No mm is ever ..."
3. Medical jurisprudence by Alfred Swaine Taylor, Edward Hartshorne (1861)
"cause of death.—It is important for a medical witness to bear in mind that in
all cases of wounds criminally inflicted, the cause of death must be certain. ..."
4. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by Philadelphia Neurological Society, American Neurological Association, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association (1900)
"ture was the cause of death in all these cases, but the evidence shows that death
was probably caused by the puncture. Most of the fatal terminations were ..."
5. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1904)
"... and established the correctness of the preliminary diagnosis that the cause
of death was an aortic aneurism. The case was of great scientific interest, ..."
6. A Manual of Medical Jurisprudence and Toxicology by Henry Cadwalader Chapman (1892)
"... of Time Elapsing Since Death—Remote and Proximate Cause of Death—Symptoms and
Post-mortem Appearance of Death from Disease of Brain, Heart, and Lungs. ..."
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