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.
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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.
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