manner of death
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manner of death
The fashion or circumstances that result in death, which are designated either natural or unnatural. Unnatural deaths are designated as accidental, homicidal, suicidal, or, in absence of a determination based on the balance of probabilities of the manner of death, undetermined.Segen's Medical Dictionary. © 2012 Farlex, Inc. All rights reserved.
manner of death
Forensic medicine The fashion or circumstances that result in death, which are designated natural or unnatural. See Natural death, Unnatural death. Cf Cause of death.McGraw-Hill Concise Dictionary of Modern Medicine. © 2002 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.