"præ-mortem" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1846 January, B. Dowler, “Part I.—Original Communications”, “Art. V.—On Febrile Caloricity”, in Charles A. Lee, editor, The New York Journal of Medicine, and the Collateral Sciences, volume VI, New York: J. & H. G. Langley, […], page 58",
          "text": "The præ-mortem and the post-mortem heat mutually illustrate one another.",
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          "ref": "1853 April, Thomas K. Chambers, “Part Third. Original Communications”, “Art. I. Decennium Pathologicum; or, Contributions to the History of Chronic Disease, from the St. George’s Hospital Records of Fatal Cases during Ten Years”, in The British and Foreign Medico-chirurgical Review or Quarterly Journal of Practical Medicine and Surgery, volume XI, London: Samuel Highley, […]; and John Churchill, […], “Part II.—Diseases of the Kidneys”, page 490",
          "text": "It is obvious that statistical deductions such as I have described above must not be derived from selected cases, neither must they rest on the frail foundation of præ-mortem diagnosis.",
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          "ref": "1885 January, “Part IV.—Notes and News”, in D. Hack Tuke, Geo. H. Savage, editors, The Journal of Mental Science, volume XXX, London: J. and A. Churchill, […], page 642",
          "text": "There were some old pericarditic adhesions over the left side of the left ventricle, and on separating these the heart-wall was torn through, and from the adherent infiltrated clot it was evident that at least a partial præ-mortem tearing of the heart-wall had occurred here, and perhaps complete perforation at a small rent, permitting of a slight hæmorrhage at the time of the collapse, 17 days before death.",
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          "text": "It is obvious that statistical deductions such as I have described above must not be derived from selected cases, neither must they rest on the frail foundation of præ-mortem diagnosis.",
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