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"Mortal Wound" dictionary entry from The New World of English Words By Edward Phillips (1720).. A mortal wound is an injury that will ultimately lead to a person's death. [1] [2] Mortal refers to the mortality of a human: whether they are going to live or die. [3]
Mass fatality and mass casualty incidents may, and often do, occur simultaneously. Mass fatality incidents, differ from mass casualty incidents in that most, if not all, of the victims of the incident are deceased. A catastrophic plane crash with no survivors is an example of a mass fatality incident.
Fatal injury. To be used where death occurs within thirty consecutive 24-hour time periods from the time of the crash. Incapacitating injury. Any injury, other than a fatal injury, which prevents the injured person from walking, driving or normally continuing the activities the person was capable of performing before the injury occurred.
A casualty (/ ˈ k æ ʒ j ʊ ə l t i / ⓘ), as a term in military usage, is a person in military service, combatant or non-combatant, who becomes unavailable for duty due to any of several circumstances, including death, injury, illness, missing, capture or desertion.
15th-century depiction of exsanguination as part of Jewish ritual slaughter of animals for consumption. Exsanguination is used as a slaughter method. Before the fatal incision is made, the animal will be rendered insensible to pain by various methods, including captive bolt, electricity, or chemical.
Fatality may refer to: Fatality (Mortal Kombat), a finishing move, originated in the Mortal Kombat series of fighting games; Fatality (comics), a character published ...
In the past, the adoption of this whole-brain definition was a conclusion of the President's Commission for the Study of Ethical Problems in Medicine and Biomedical and Behavioral Research in 1980. [37] They concluded that this approach to defining death sufficed in reaching a uniform definition nationwide.
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