• of death in the developed world are made by medical professionals who pronounce death when specific criteria are met. Two categories of legal death are...
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  • Determination of Death Act, since enacted in 39 states. Today, both the legal and medical communities in the US use "brain death" as a legal definition of death, allowing...
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    death from both a medical and legal standpoint have made it difficult to create a single unifying definition. One of the challenges in defining death...
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  • stages of death of a human being have medical, biochemical and legal aspects. The term taphonomy from palaeontology applies to the fate of all kinds of remains...
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  • Euthanasia (redirect from Good death)
    best interests of the person on the receiving end." Definitions such as those offered by the House of Lords Select committee on Medical Ethics take this...
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    This glossary of medical terms is a list of definitions about medicine, its sub-disciplines, and related fields. Contents:  A B C D E F G H I J K L M...
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  • termination of pregnancy is the term usually used for later uterine evacuation. Ambiguous definitions can create concerns in the medical community. Physicians...
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  • Abstract: The definition of alcoholism. The Joint Committee of the National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence and the American Society of Addiction...
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  • Endicott, Jean; Micoulaud Franchi, Jean-Arthur (2018). "Medical and mental disorder: Proposed definition and criteria". Annales Médico-Psychologiques, Revue...
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  • Health (redirect from Definition of health)
    Health Organization's definition Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity...
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  • Cadaveric spasm Death rattle End-of-life care Euthanasia Lazarus sign Lazarus syndrome Medical definition of death Brain death Clinical death Death by natural...
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  • Faces of Death (later re-released as The Original Faces of Death) is a 1978 American mondo horror film written and directed by John Alan Schwartz, credited...
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    Disease (redirect from Medical condition)
    structure or function of all or part of an organism and is not immediately due to any external injury. Diseases are often known to be medical conditions that...
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  • 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 of many...
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  • Apoplexy (category Causes of death)
    advent of medical science, there was limited ability to differentiate abnormal conditions and diseased states. Although physiology as a medical field dates...
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    release of information regarding his death. Alexander Polupan, a doctor who treated Navalny's earlier poisoning, questioned the rapid timing of medical care...
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    the federal definition, thirteen areas use a shortened definition of fetal death, and three areas have no formal definition of fetal death. Only 11 areas...
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    British Medical Association (BMA) (2002). Illustrated Medical Dictionary. A Dorling Kindersley Book. p. 406. ISBN 978-0-7513-3383-1. "Definition of SYMPTOMATOLOGY"...
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  • Information-theoretic death is a term of art used in cryonics to define death in a way that is permanent and independent of any future medical advances, no matter...
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    analysis and presentation of objective information (medical evidence) for use in the legal system. When investigating a death, forensic pathologists: perform...
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  • broader definition was used in the 1975 Declaration of Tokyo regarding the participation of medical professionals in acts of torture: For the purpose of this...
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    Medicine (redirect from Medical)
    Form of non-scientific healing List of causes of death by rate List of disorders List of important publications in medicine Lists of diseases Medical aid –...
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  • "brainstem death" – championed by Pallis in a set of 1982 articles in the British Medical Journal – and advanced a new definition of human death as the basis...
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    The Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 (FMLA) is a United States labor law requiring covered employers to provide employees with job-protected, unpaid...
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    Physician (redirect from Medical doctor)
    A physician, medical practitioner (British English), medical doctor, or simply doctor is a health professional who practices medicine, which is concerned...
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  • Medical errors are often described as human preventable errors in healthcare. Whether the label is a medical error or human error, one definition used...
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  • single event regardless of the motive, setting or number of deaths." Definitions generally exclude consideration of the number of persons targeted with...
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  • ceases entirely and death occurs within minutes due to hypoxia and leads rapidly into complete anoxia, although both are medical emergencies. Hypoventilation...
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  • Dead on arrival (category Medical terminology)
    candidate for resuscitation. This type of decision is rather sensitive and can be difficult to make. Legal definitions of death vary from place to place; for example...
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  • Sudden unexplained death in childhood (SUDC) is the death of a child over the age of 12 months which remains unexplained after a thorough investigation...
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