Ischemic cell death, or oncosis, is a form of accidental cell death. The process is characterized by an ATP depletion within the cell leading to impairment...

regulator of activated T-lymphocytes. Ischemic cell death, or oncosis, is a form of accidental, or passive cell death that is often considered a lethal injury...

A death mask is a likeness (typically in wax or plaster cast) of a person's face after their death, usually made by taking a cast or impression from the...

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...

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...

coronary arteries. In most Western countries, Ischemic heart disease is the most common cause of death in both men and women, and a major cause of hospital...

necessary. During clinical death, all tissues and organs in the body steadily accumulate a type of injury called ischemic injury. Most tissues and organs...

in a separate waiting cell. Raiford Prison, where Zangara was being held, already had one prisoner waiting in their "death cell" so the waiting area was...

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...

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...

A death hoax is a deliberate report of someone's death that is later revealed to be untrue. In some cases, it might be because the person has intentionally...

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...

Death flights (Spanish: vuelos de la muerte) are a form of extrajudicial killing in which the victims are dropped to their death from airplanes or helicopters...

classical Freudian psychoanalytic theory, the death drive (German: Todestrieb) is the drive toward death and destruction, often expressed through behaviors...

Accidental deaths in the United States An accidental death is an unnatural death that is caused by an accident, such as a slip and fall, traffic collision...

Fan death is a misconception that people have died as a result of running an electric fan in a closed room with no open windows. While the supposed mechanics...

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...

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...

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...

life support. The living cells that can cause these movements are not living cells from the brain or brain stem; these cells come from the spinal cord...

A death march is a forced march of prisoners of war or other captives or deportees in which individuals are left to die along the way. It is distinguished...

other than aging. Death is generally applied to whole organisms; the equivalent for individual components of an organism, such as cells or tissues, is necrosis...

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...

Symbols of death are the motifs, images and concepts associated with death throughout different cultures, religions and societies. Various images are...

death is a purported existence in which the essential part of an individual's stream of consciousness or identity continues to exist after the death of...

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...

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...

suicide (PAS), "physician-assisted dying", "physician-assisted death", "assisted death" and "medical aid in dying" (MAiD). Assisted suicide is similar...

are three types: ischemic (low-flow), nonischemic (high-flow), and recurrent ischemic (intermittent). Most cases are ischemic. Ischemic priapism is generally...

The death poem is a genre of poetry that developed in the literary traditions of East Asian cultures—most prominently in Japan as well as certain periods...