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Death rattle. A death rattle is noisy breathing that often occurs in someone who is near death. [ 1] It is caused by an accumulation of fluids such as saliva and bronchial secretions in the throat and upper airways. [ 2] Those who are dying may lose their ability to swallow and may have increased production of bronchial secretions, resulting in ...
Mottle is a pattern of irregular marks, spots, streaks, blotches or patches of different shades or colours. It is commonly used to describe the surface of plants or the skin of animals. In plants, mottling usually consists of yellowish spots on plants, and is usually a sign of disease or malnutrition. [ 1] Many plant viruses cause mottling ...
In medicine, specifically in end-of-life care, palliative sedation (also known as terminal sedation, continuous deep sedation, or sedation for intractable distress of a dying patient) is the palliative practice of relieving distress in a terminally ill person in the last hours or days of a dying person's life, usually by means of a continuous intravenous or subcutaneous infusion of a sedative ...
Livedo reticularis is a common skin finding consisting of a mottled reticulated vascular pattern that appears as a lace-like purplish discoloration of the skin. [ 1] The discoloration is caused by reduction in blood flow through the arterioles that supply the cutaneous capillaries, resulting in deoxygenated blood showing as blue discoloration.
v. t. e. Depiction of a body after suicide hanging. Livor mortis is fixed in the legs and distal upper extremities because these were the dependent parts. Livor mortis (from Latin līvor 'bluish color, bruise' and mortis 'of death'), postmortem lividity (from Latin post mortem 'after death' and lividitas 'black and blueness'), hypostasis (from ...
Terminal lucidity (also known as rallying, terminal rally, the rally, end-of-life-experience, energy surge, the surge, or pre-mortem surge) [ 1] is an unexpected return of consciousness, mental clarity or memory shortly before death in individuals with severe psychiatric or neurological disorders. [ 2][ 3] It has been reported by physicians ...
Pepper mild mottle virus. Pepper mild mottle virus ( PMMoV) is a plant pathogenic virus that occurs worldwide on species of field grown bell, hot and ornamental pepper species. It is caused by members of the plant virus genus Tobamovirus —otherwise known as the tobacco mosaic virus family. Tobamovirus are viruses that contain positive sense ...
Comfort with the idea of death: According to the survey, 2 in 3 adults (69%) are at least somewhat comfortable thinking about their own eventual death and 7 in 10 (73%) are at least somewhat ...