| fatal | Causing death, deadly, mortal, lethal. (18 Nov 1997) |
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| fatal outcome | Death resulting from the presence of a disease in an individual, as shown by a single case report or a limited number of patients. This should be differentiated from death, the physiological cessation of life and from mortality, an epidemiological or statistical concept. (12 Dec 1998) |
| fatality | 1. A condition, disease, or disaster ending in death. 2. An individual instance of death. (05 Mar 2000) |
| fatality rate | The death rate observed in a designated series of persons affected by a simultaneous event such as a disaster. (05 Mar 2000) |