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deathrate: the ratio of deaths in an area to the population of that area; expressed per 1000 per year
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| fatal |
bringing death fateful: having momentous consequences; of decisive importance; "that fateful meeting of the U.N. when...it declared war on North Korea"- Saturday Rev; "the fatal day of the election finally arrived" black: (of events) having extremely unfortunate or dire consequences; bringing ruin; "the stock market crashed on Black Friday"; "a calamitous defeat"; "the battle was a disastrous end to a disastrous campaign"; "such doctrines, if true, would be absolutely fatal to my theory"- Charles Darwin; "it is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it"- Douglas MacArthur; "a fateful error" controlled or decreed by fate; predetermined; "a fatal series of events"
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| fatality |
a death resulting from an accident or a disaster; "a decrease in the number of automobile fatalities" the quality of being able to cause death or fatal disasters
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| fatal familial insomnia |
Fatal familial insomnia (FFI) is a very rare, autosomal dominant inherited, brain disease. It is caused by a mutation in a protein called prion protein (PrP): asparagine-178 is replaced by aspartic acid. The mutation changes the shape of PrP so that it becomes a prion and makes other, normal PrP molecules change to the abnormal shape. This causes amyloid plaques in the thalamus, the region of the brain responsible for regulation of sleep patterns. ...
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| fatal dose |
A dose that kills. SEE: median lethal dose .
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