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  2. Asphyxia - Wikipedia

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    Asphyxia or asphyxiation is a condition of deficient supply of oxygen to the body which arises from abnormal breathing. [3] [4] Asphyxia causes generalized hypoxia, which affects all the tissues and organs, some more rapidly than others. There are many circumstances that can induce asphyxia, all of which are characterized by the inability of a ...

  3. List of human disease case fatality rates - Wikipedia

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    Human infectious diseases may be characterized by their case fatality rate (CFR), the proportion of people diagnosed with a disease who die from it (cf. mortality rate).It should not be confused with the infection fatality rate (IFR), the estimated proportion of people infected by a disease-causing agent, including asymptomatic and undiagnosed infections, who die from the disease.

  4. 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.

  5. Cadaveric spasm - Wikipedia

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    Cadaveric spasm is seen in cases of drowning victims when grass, weeds, roots or other materials are clutched, and provides evidence of life at the time of entry into the water. Cadaveric spasm often crystallizes the last activity one did before death and is therefore significant in forensic investigations, e.g. holding onto a knife tightly. [4]

  6. 10 weird things that can kill you almost instantly - AOL

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    The spice, in larger quantities, has a hallucinogenic effect, and when consumed in excess can cause psychosis and death. Number 5. Underestimating a cow . 22 a year.

  7. Crush syndrome - Wikipedia

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    Immediate untreated crush syndrome death is caused by severe head injury, torso injury with damaged abdominal organs, and asphyxia (excessive loss of oxygen). Early untreated crush syndrome death is caused by hyperkalemia and by hypovolemic shock. Late untreated crush syndrome death is caused by renal failure, coagulopathy and hemorrhage, and ...

  8. Internal bleeding - Wikipedia

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    Internal bleeding (also called internal haemorrhage) is a loss of blood from a blood vessel that collects inside the body, and is not usually visible from the outside. [1] It can be a serious medical emergency but the extent of severity depends on bleeding rate and location of the bleeding (e.g. head, torso, extremities).

  9. Dying To Be Free - The Huffington Post

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    Once signed into the facility, Peterson wasn’t permitted to leave until his three months were up — precisely 92 days and five hours, he recalled. “It didn’t make any sense to me then. It wasn’t treatment,” he said. “I don’t know what you’d call it.” Peterson relapsed immediately after he left Camarillo.