cause of death
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Noun[edit]
cause of death (plural causes of death)
- The official cause of a human death as typically determined by a coroner during an autopsy and included on the death certificate of a deceased person.
- 2015 February 26, Francis S. Collins, Harold Varmus, “A New Initiative on Precision Medicine”, in The New England Journal of Medicine, volume 372, number 9, , pages 793–794:
- Cancers are common diseases; in the aggregate, they are among the leading causes of death nationally and worldwide, and their incidence is increasing as the population ages.
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official cause of a human death
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