(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.
Mourner
Definition:
(n.) One who mourns or is grieved at any misfortune, as the death of a friend.
(n.) One who attends a funeral as a hired mourner.
Example Sentences:
(1) Witnesses said that riot police and crowds of protesters had been waiting for the mourners as the service ended.
(2) Dúirt mé leat go raibh mé breoite " ("I told you I was ill") now reminds mourners of Spike's anarchic wit and wisdom.
(3) At recent climate change conferences, a coffin has been paraded through the halls of delegates covered in a shroud and attended by mourners.
(4) In the days that followed, thousands of flowers carpeted Martin Place, left by mourners and well-wishers.
(5) Last summer, 3,000 mourners attended the funeral of Tama the cat , whose 2007 appointment as honorary stationmaster at a railway station in western Japan was credited with saving the line from financial ruin.
(6) Thousands of Palestinian mourners carried the burned body of 17-year Mohammed Abu Khdeir through the streets of an East Jerusalem suburb on Friday.
(7) The roads, which construction workers began after his first serious bout of ill health, will carry mourners to Mandela's grave site.
(8) One showed a Protestant attack on mourners at a Catholic funeral.
(9) The suspicions of most of those mourners – that a police officer killed Peach – were all but confirmed in yesterday's report.
(10) Shuttles bused groups of mourners to take turns walking quietly in a circle around the casket covered in white roses and peonies – Nancy Reagan’s favorite flower.
(11) Among the mourners were General Aslam Beg, a former army chief, and General Hamid Gul, a former head of Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence agency.
(12) A suspect was charged on Monday in the fatal shootings of an imam and another Muslim man , as hundreds of mourners gathered in Queens, New York, to remember the victims and call for justice.
(13) Hundreds of mourners gathered today for the funeral of Marine Richard Hollington, who became the 300th British servicemen to die in Afghanistan after he was injured in a blast in Sangin on 12 June.
(14) Mourners pay tribute to the victim at a makeshift shrine in Delhi.
(15) The images showed mourners, including Liu Xia, gathered beside a casket that was ringed by pots of white chrysanthemums.
(16) According to the Beijing News, the well-known Babaoshan crematorium will ban mourners from incinerating funeral clothes – a common sacrificial offering meant to keep the dead clothed in the afterlife – during the first two weeks of November.
(17) This last featured one of his most striking stage images: the funeral on an isolated cliff edge, the black-clad mourners standing beside a piano.
(18) Eight people died at the funeral when unidentified gunmen opened fire on mourners.
(19) Mourners were asked to make a donation to Amnesty International, the organisation to which Reynolds used to send his fees when he wrote occasional pieces for the Guardian.
(20) Thousands of mourners paid their final respects Friday to six worshippers gunned down by a white supremacist at a Sikh temple in the US almost a week ago for reasons that authorities say may never become clear.