(v. i.) The cessation of all vital phenomena without capability of resuscitation, either in animals or plants.
(v. i.) Total privation or loss; extinction; cessation; as, the death of memory.
(v. i.) Manner of dying; act or state of passing from life.
(v. i.) Cause of loss of life.
(v. i.) Personified: The destroyer of life, -- conventionally represented as a skeleton with a scythe.
(v. i.) Danger of death.
(v. i.) Murder; murderous character.
(v. i.) Loss of spiritual life.
(v. i.) Anything so dreadful as to be like death.
Example Sentences:
(1) Direct fetal digitalization led to a reduction in umbilical artery resistance, a decline in the abdominal circumference from 20.3 to 17.8 cm, and resolution of the ascites within 72 h. Despite this dramatic response to therapy, fetal death occurred on day 5 of treatment.
(2) Life expectancy and the infant mortality rate are considered more useful from an operational perspective and for comparisons than is the crude death rate because they are not influenced by age structure.
(3) Electrophysiologic studies are indicated in patients with sustained paroxysmal ventricular tachycardia, ventricular fibrillation or aborted sudden death.
(4) This death is also dependent on the presence of chloride and is prevented with the non-selective EAA antagonist, kynurenic acid, but is not prevented by QA.
(5) Insensitive variants die more slowly than wild type cells, with 10-20% cell death observed within 24 h after addition of dexamethasone.
(6) Whereas strain Ga-1 was practically avirulent for mice, strain KL-1 produced death by 21 days in 50% of the mice inoculated.
(7) The strongest predictor of non-sudden cardiac death was the New York Heart Association functional class.
(8) There was one complication (4.8%) from PCD (pneumothorax) and no deaths in this group.
(9) In the case presented, overdistension of a jejunostomy catheter balloon led to intestinal obstruction and pressure necrosis (of the small bowel), with subsequent abscess formation leading to death from septicemia.
(10) We report a case of a sudden death in a SCUBA diver working at a water treatment facility.
(11) The dangers caused by PM10s was highlighted in the Rogers review of local authority regulatory services, published in 2007, which said poor air quality contributed to between 12,000 and 24,000 premature deaths each year.
(12) Diphenoxylate-induced hypoxia was the major problem and was associated with slow or fast respirations, hypotonia or rigidity, cardiac arrest, and in 3 cases cerebral edema and death.
(13) In addition to the 89 cases of sudden and unexpected death before the age of 50 (preceded by some modification of the patient's life style in 29 cases), 11 cases were symptomatic and 5 were transplanted with a good result.
(14) The four deaths were not related to the injuries of parenchymatous organs.
(15) Four patients died while maintained on PD; three deaths were due to complications of liver failure within the first 4 months of PD and the fourth was due to empyema after 4 years of PD.
(16) There were no deaths attributable to the treatment.
(17) The first patient, an 82-year-old woman, developed a WPW syndrome suggesting posterior right ventricular preexcitation, a pattern which persisted for four months until her death.
(18) The Pan American Health Organization, the Americas arm of the World Health Organization, estimated the deaths from Tuesday's magnitude 7 quake at between 50,000 and 100,000, but said that was a "huge guess".
(19) This death toll represents 25% of avoidable adult deaths in developing countries.
(20) Serum sialic acid concentration predicts both death from CHD and stroke in men and women independent of age.
Dismemberment
Definition:
(n.) The act of dismembering, or the state of being dismembered; cutting in piece; m/tilation; division; separation.
Example Sentences:
(1) In a statement to the UN's general assembly last summer, Ramgoolam said: "The dismemberment of part of our territory, the Chagos archipelago – prior to independence – by the then colonial power, the United Kingdom, in clear breach of international law, leaves the process of decolonisation not only of Mauritius, but of Africa , incomplete."
(2) 11 cases were classified as defensive and 16 cases as offensive dismemberment of bodies (among these: 2 cases of dismemberment after stealing the corpse and 2 cases of killing the victims by decapitation).
(3) Findings suggest that a high percent of advertisements: (1) place women in submissive positions to men; (2) place women in unnatural poses; (3) emphasize dismemberment of body parts; (4) focus on sexuality rather than wellness.
(4) Pro-Russia activists point out that one obvious outcome of events has been the complete dismemberment of Odessa’s pro-Russia political movement.
(5) But strengthening the Kurdish army, with the UK already supplying military equipment, could speed up the creation of an independent Kurdish state and the dismemberment of Iraq.
(6) We are seated on sofas in a cavernous, wood-floored room in his Los Angeles base, Studio Della Morte, where instruments (several gongs, a discarded accordion on the floor) compete for space with macabre props (cow skulls, dolls in various states of metamorphosis or dismemberment) and oddball paintings (a hare with boxing gloves).
(7) And we found one: this year’s winner has written – at a variety of lengths up to and including books – on subjects from WikiLeaks to the dismemberment of Ukraine and the surveillance revelations of Edward Snowden .” Harding was the Guardian’s Moscow bureau chief from 2007 until 2011, when the Kremlin expelled him from the country in the first case of its kind since the cold war.
(8) In the exercise of such authority they will take such steps, including the complete dismemberment of Germany, as they deem requisite for future peace and security."
(9) He gave fierce lectures decrying the dismemberment of music libraries (especially his beloved Henry Watson music library in Manchester), and the decline of Latin and classical music provision in schools.
(10) 12 cases were classified as defensive and 14 cases as offensive dismemberment of bodies; 2 cases of necrophilous dismemberment occurred after stealing the corpse and 3 victims were killed by intravital decapitation or mutilation.
(11) Meanwhile Mr Letwin successfully urged Lady Thatcher to “use Scotland as a trail-blazer”, a discriminatory approach for which the Conservative party is still paying in Scotland and of which the ultimate price may yet be the dismemberment of the United Kingdom.
(12) In fact, limb dismemberment is something of a general Star Wars trope , with Luke Skywalker, Darth Vader (twice) and Samuel L Jackson’s Mace Windu all losing body parts over the course of the six movies.
(13) It is a competitive field as to when this event happened but the pointless, unnecessary dismemberment of the 115-year-old UK record company has to be in the dismal top 10.
(14) Cameron and his gang will surely not dare to continue the dismemberment of the NHS after this.
(15) Nine cases of defensive corpse dismemberment are reported.
(16) They fear dismemberment with all the emotion (and anxiety) you discover when you talk Kashmir in Delhi.
(17) The creation of descendants with the same hereditary factors is possible in mammals up to now only by the dismemberment of the germ up to the eight-cell-stage.
(18) 2.55pm BST Brazil bashing Phil Scolari suggested in the aftermath of his dull team's dismemberment by Germany that he bore most of the blame.
(19) The psychological problems doctors experience with dismemberment of the fetus may be relieved with development of new techniques.
(20) 31 cases of criminal dismemberment or mutilation were investigated in the period from 1959 to 1987 at the Institute of Forensic Medicine in Hamburg.