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  2. List of English-language expressions related to death

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    This is a list of words and phrases related to death in alphabetical order. While some of them are slang, others euphemize the unpleasantness of the subject, or are used in formal contexts. Some of the phrases may carry the meaning of 'kill', or simply contain words related to death. Most of them are idioms

  3. Terminal illness - Wikipedia

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    Terminal illness or end-stage disease is a disease that cannot be cured or adequately treated and is expected to result in the death of the patient. This term is more commonly used for progressive diseases such as cancer, dementia, advanced heart disease, and for HIV/AIDS, or long COVID in bad cases, rather than for injury.

  4. List of abbreviations for diseases and disorders - Wikipedia

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    Age-related macular degeneration: AML Acute myelogenous leukemia: AN Anorexia nervosa: AOCD Anemia of chronic disease: AODM Adult onset diabetes mellitus: AOS Apraxia of speech: APA Aldosterone-producing adenoma: APS Antiphospholipid syndrome: ARBD Alcohol-related birth defects: ARD Adult Refsum disease: ARDS Acute respiratory distress syndrome ...

  5. In hypochondria paradox, Swedish study finds a higher death ...

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    Overall death rates were higher in the people with hypochondriasis, 8.5 versus 5.5 per 1,000 person years. People with the condition died younger than the others, a mean age of 70 versus 75.

  6. Comorbidity - Wikipedia

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    to indicate two or more medical conditions existing simultaneously regardless of their causal relationship. [4] Comorbidity can indicate either a condition existing simultaneously, but independently with another condition or a related derivative medical condition. The latter sense of the term causes some overlap with the concept of complications.

  7. Insult (medical) - Wikipedia

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    In medical terms, an insult is the cause of some kind of physical or mental injury. For example, a burn on the skin (the injury) may be the result of a thermal, chemical, radioactive, or electrical event (the insult). [1]

  8. Why seniors are more vulnerable to heat-related illness - AOL

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    Even though heat-related illness and death are preventable, more than 600 people in the United States are killed by extreme heat annually, according to the CDC. With no end in sight for the ...

  9. List of causes of death by rate - Wikipedia

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    A study found that 9.4% of global deaths between 2000 and 2019 – ~5 million annually – can be attributed to extreme temperature with cold-related ones making up the larger share and decreasing and heat-related ones making up ~0.91% and increasing. Incidences of heart attacks, cardiac arrests and strokes increase under such conditions.