cause death
collocation in Englishmeaningsofcauseanddeath
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cause
noun
uk/kɔːz/us/kɑːz/
the reason why something, especially something ...
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death
noun[C or U]
uk/deθ/us/deθ/
the end ...
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(Definition ofcauseanddeathfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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These other chromosomal anomalies occur less frequently and oftencausedeathin infancy.
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Such transplanted melanoma and the resulting clinical metastasescausedeathin half the recipients.
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In palliative sedation death is not intended, although it is known that the sedative willcausedeath.
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I refer to some instances of palliative sedation at the end of life that both relieve pain and - by suppressing respiration -causedeath.
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Nor that in lethal palliation the intention is to remove suffering, thereby implying that one could not have also had the intention tocausedeath.
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He wants to relieve pain more than he wants not tocausedeath.
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A physician who injects potassium chloride may say that her intention was tocausedeath; but she need not.
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Nevertheless, it will notcausedeathand terror unless military factors are present to create a militarily rational cover for its operation.
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After passing into the midgut, they attack fat body tissues andcausedeath.
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Pressure ulcers may not directlycausedeath, but the association with mortality may be due to their occurrence in otherwise frail, sick patients.
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This principle requires that the physician intend to relieve the patient's suffering, not tocausedeath.
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Such a device could be programmed tocausedeathat some uncertain point in the future.
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There is, thus, no necessary connection between any action in the permitted/ forbidden spectrum and the presence or absence of an intention tocausedeath.
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By highlighting the interconnectedness of various possible factors, including those which could ultimatelycausedeath, the ecological model is quite useful to both historians and demographers.
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A physician who withdraws life-sustaining treatment may conceptualize her intention as to discontinue unwanted or nonbeneficial treatment; another who does the same may conceptualize hers as tocausedeath.
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If one's action causes death, and death causes some further end such as the reduction of suffering (as it does in active euthanasia), there is an intention tocausedeath.
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Does haloperidolcausedeathdue to its powerful parkinsonian effects?
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