"cause of death" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: causes of death [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun|causes of death}} cause of death (plural causes of death)
  1. The official cause of a human death as typically determined by a coroner during an autopsy and included on the death certificate of a deceased person. Wikipedia link: cause of death Categories (topical): Death Related terms: manner of death, mechanism of death Translations (official cause of a human death): سَبَب مَوْت (sabab mawt) [masculine] (Arabic), سَبَب وَفَاة (sabab wafāh) [masculine] (Arabic), прычы́на сме́рці (pryčýna smjérci) [feminine] (Belarusian), причи́на за смъртта́ (pričína za smǎrttá) [feminine] (Bulgarian), 死因 (sǐyīn) (Chinese Mandarin), příčina smrti [feminine] (Czech), příčina úmrtí [feminine] (Czech), dødsårsag [common-gender] (Danish), doodsoorzaak [feminine] (Dutch), kuolinsyy (Finnish), kuolemansyy (Finnish), cause de la mort [feminine] (French), cause du décès [feminine] (French), Todesursache [feminine] (German), causa di morte [feminine] (Italian), 死因 (shiin) (alt: しいん) (Japanese), 사인 (sain) (alt: 死因) (Korean), 사망원인 (samang'wonin) (alt: 死亡原因) (Korean), tiʔiɬ dəxʷuʔatəbəds əlgʷəʔ (Lushootseed), при́чина за смрт (príčina za smrt) [feminine] (Macedonian), dødsårsak [feminine, masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), dødsårsak [feminine] (Norwegian Nynorsk), علت مرگ ('ellat-e marg) (Persian), przyczyna śmierci [feminine] (Polish), причи́на сме́рти (pričína smérti) [feminine] (Russian), príčina úmrtia [feminine] (Slovak), príčina smrti [feminine] (Slovak), causa de la muerte [feminine] (Spanish), dödsorsak [common-gender] (Swedish), причи́на сме́рті (pryčýna smérti) [feminine] (Ukrainian)

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      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "pričína smérti",
      "sense": "official cause of a human death",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "причи́на сме́рти"
    },
    {
      "code": "sk",
      "lang": "Slovak",
      "sense": "official cause of a human death",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "príčina úmrtia"
    },
    {
      "code": "sk",
      "lang": "Slovak",
      "sense": "official cause of a human death",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "príčina smrti"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "official cause of a human death",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "causa de la muerte"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "official cause of a human death",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "dödsorsak"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "pryčýna smérti",
      "sense": "official cause of a human death",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "причи́на сме́рті"
    }
  ],
  "word": "cause of death"
}

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