extended, and mouth wide open. The cause of this posture—often called a "death pose"—has been a matter of scientific debate. Traditional explanations ranged... 5 KB (508 words) - 17:47, 2 July 2023 |
Opisthotonus is seen with drowning victims – called the "opisthotonic death pose". This pose is also common in complete dinosaur skeletal fossils and it has... 7 KB (607 words) - 00:22, 14 April 2024 |
A death rattle is noisy breathing that often occurs in someone who is near death. It is caused by an accumulation of fluids such as saliva and bronchial... 4 KB (406 words) - 04:56, 6 January 2024 |
A death erection, angel lust, rigor erectus, or terminal erection is a post-mortem erection, technically a priapism, observed in the corpses of men who... 9 KB (1,142 words) - 00:39, 2 April 2024 |
A death anniversary (or deathday) is the anniversary of the death of a person. It is the opposite of birthday. It is a custom in several Asian cultures... 14 KB (1,526 words) - 10:55, 22 April 2024 |
date, location and cause of a person's death, as entered in an official register of deaths. An official death certificate is usually required to be provided... 9 KB (933 words) - 16:09, 10 April 2024 |
A faked death, also called a staged death, is the act of an individual purposely deceiving other people into believing that the individual is dead, when... 50 KB (5,696 words) - 15:28, 21 April 2024 |
Pose (stylized as POSE) is an American drama television series about New York City's ball culture, an LGBTQ subculture in the African-American and Latino... 141 KB (7,169 words) - 12:40, 12 April 2024 |
A death threat is a threat, often made anonymously, by one person or a group of people to kill another person or group of people. These threats are often... 5 KB (529 words) - 10:33, 10 April 2024 |
Clinical death is the medical term for cessation of blood circulation and breathing, the two criteria necessary to sustain the lives of human beings and... 23 KB (2,619 words) - 01:36, 2 November 2023 |
Brain death is the permanent, irreversible, and complete loss of brain function which may include cessation of involuntary activity necessary to sustain... 24 KB (2,785 words) - 19:59, 16 April 2024 |
Voodoo death, a term coined by Walter Cannon in 1942 also known as psychogenic death or psychosomatic death, is the phenomenon of sudden death as brought... 18 KB (2,449 words) - 02:43, 28 February 2024 |
example, opossums scavenging roadkill may react with the death-like posture to the threat posed by oncoming traffic, and subsequently end up as roadkill... 47 KB (5,341 words) - 03:56, 24 April 2024 |
Death from laughter is an extremely rare form of death, usually resulting from either cardiac arrest or asphyxiation, that has itself been caused by a... 14 KB (1,649 words) - 02:30, 11 April 2024 |
A death knell is the ringing of a church bell to announce the death of a person. Historically,[where?][when?] it was the second of three bells rung around... 8 KB (1,015 words) - 08:33, 4 January 2024 |
Dignified death, death with dignity, dying with dignity or dignity in dying is an ethical concept that refers to the end-of-life process avoiding suffering... 2 KB (230 words) - 22:49, 15 April 2024 |
classical Freudian psychoanalytic theory, the death drive (German: Todestrieb) is the drive toward death and destruction, often expressed through behaviors... 32 KB (4,086 words) - 19:21, 15 October 2023 |
of most cultures incorporate a god of death or, more frequently, a divine being closely associated with death, an afterlife, or an underworld. They are... 34 KB (4,359 words) - 03:33, 8 April 2024 |
Death row, also known as condemned row, is a place in a prison that houses inmates awaiting execution after being convicted of a capital crime and sentenced... 35 KB (2,651 words) - 11:17, 25 March 2024 |
Cell death is the event of a biological cell ceasing to carry out its functions. This may be the result of the natural process of old cells dying and... 14 KB (1,667 words) - 11:50, 4 April 2024 |
In many legal jurisdictions, the manner of death is a determination, typically made by the coroner, medical examiner, police, or similar officials, and... 14 KB (1,565 words) - 18:17, 6 February 2024 |
Symbols of death are the motifs, images and concepts associated with death throughout different cultures, religions and societies. Various images are... 8 KB (1,011 words) - 15:12, 8 December 2023 |
death is the recognition under the law of a particular jurisdiction that a person is no longer alive. In most cases, a doctor's declaration of death (variously... 19 KB (2,247 words) - 03:10, 6 February 2024 |