Cause of death

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The official cause of a human death as typically determined by a coroner during an autopsy and included on the death certificate of a deceased person.

    "Cancers are common diseases; in the aggregate, they are among the leading causes of death nationally and worldwide, and their incidence is increasing as the population ages."

  2. 2
    the causal agent resulting in death wordnet

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