cause of death
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- noun
- /kɔz əv dɛθ/
:
causa de la muerte
- The death certificate includes data on age, gender, location, cause of death, and comorbidities that contributed to the death.
- leading cause of death
- determine the cause of death
- immediate cause of death
And tuberculosis remains the leading cause of death in people with HIV.
- And tuberculosis remains the leading cause of death in people with HIV.
- What is the leading cause of death in these places?
- And suicide is now the second most common cause of death amongst teens.
- He also stated that the third leading cause of death globally is elevated blood pressure.
- Tuberculosis, for example, is now the largest cause of death, exceeding AIDS and malaria.
- That's why the cause of death was smothering after I left CC's room.
- However, this witness probably doesn't have the expertise to be able to testify to the cause of death.
- But when we go through the mortality tables, just strip out the top eight leading infectious disease causes of death.
- Yes, it still remains the leading cause of death in this country and globally.
- Go to doctor Google, look up Johns Hopkins, third leading cause of death, medical error.
Examples
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The autopsy report confirmed that the cause of death was a heart attack.
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In half of cases, no cause of death is established.
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What is the leading cause of death in these places?
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Heart disease is the leading cause of death in these old people, older people.
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Heart disease is the number one cause of death in people in the United States.
Academic text (2001) -
What were the major causes of death in the United States?
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It's now the leading infectious cause of death in the world.
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Yes, it still remains the leading cause of death in this country and globally.
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COVID right now, as we speak, is the leading cause of death for law enforcement.
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And tuberculosis remains the leading cause of death in people with HIV.
Synonyms
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A thing, often a disease, that causes many deaths
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'the reason or factor that led to a person's death' is directly and compositionally derived from 'cause' (reason) + 'of' + 'death' (end of life). This straightforward noun-of-noun construction is cross-linguistically common and follows normal English composition patterns, so a B1 learner who knows the constituent words will readily infer the MWE meaning.
Etymology
Cause of death comes from the simple idea of naming what made someone die: the cause is the event or illness that led to death. Doctors write that 'cause' on the death certificate so we know why a person died and can use the information to help prevent similar deaths.