English
Noun
cause of death (plural causes of death)
- 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.
2015 February 26, Francis S. Collins, Harold Varmus, “A New Initiative on Precision Medicine”, in The New England Journal of Medicine, volume 372, number 9, →DOI, pages 793–794: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.
Translations
official cause of a human death
- Arabic: سَبَب مَوْت m (sabab mawt), سَبَب وَفَاة m (sabab wafāh)
- Belarusian: прычы́на сме́рці f (pryčýna smjérci)
- Bulgarian: причи́на за смъртта́ f (pričína za smǎrttá)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 死因 (zh) (sǐyīn)
- Czech: příčina smrti f, příčina úmrtí f
- Danish: dødsårsag (da) c
- Dutch: doodsoorzaak (nl) f
- Finnish: kuolinsyy (fi), kuolemansyy (fi)
- French: cause de la mort f, cause du décès f
- German: Todesursache (de) f
- Italian: causa di morte f
- Japanese: 死因 (ja) (しいん, shiin)
- Korean: 사인(死因) (ko) (sain), 사망원인(死亡原因) (samang'wonin)
- Lushootseed: tiʔiɬ dəxʷuʔatəbəds əlgʷəʔ
- Macedonian: при́чина за смрт f (príčina za smrt)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: dødsårsak (no) m or f
- Nynorsk: dødsårsak f
- Persian: علت مرگ ('ellat-e marg)
- Polish: przyczyna śmierci f
- Russian: причи́на сме́рти f (pričína smérti)
- Slovak: príčina úmrtia f, príčina smrti f
- Spanish: causa de la muerte f
- Swedish: dödsorsak (sv) c
- Ukrainian: причи́на сме́рті f (pryčýna smérti)
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