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| x Prostate cancer |
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Cancer | Linus Pauling |
Prostate cancer is a disease in which cancer develops in the prostate, a gland in the male reproductive system. It occurs when cells of the prostate mutate and begin to multiply uncontrollably. These cells may metastasize (spread) from the prostate...
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| Assassination in ways which appear natural | Michael Ritchie | ||||
| John B. Keane | |||||
| Dick Sargent | |||||
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| x Congestive heart failure |
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Marc Lawrence |
Heart failure (HF) is a condition in which a problem with the structure or function of the heart impairs its ability to supply sufficient blood flow to meet the body's needs. It should not be confused with cardiac arrest (see Terminology, below)....
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| Boris Yeltsin | |||||
| Suharto | |||||
| Walter O'Malley | |||||
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| x Acute Liver Disease | Ray Charles | ||||
| x Air disaster | Jean-Claude Lauzon | ||||
| Aaliyah | |||||
| Barbara Olson | |||||
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| x Cardiac arrest |
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Assassination in ways which appear natural | Christopher Reeve |
A cardiac arrest, also known as cardiopulmonary arrest or circulatory arrest, is the abrupt cessation of normal circulation of the blood due to failure of the heart to contract effectively during systole.
A cardiac arrest is different from (but may...
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| Ub Iwerks | |||||
| Stanley Kubrick | |||||
| René Lévesque | |||||
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| x Suicide |
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Assassination by 'Suicide' | Hanging | Frank Stanford |
Suicide (Latin suicidium, from sui caedere, to kill oneself) is the intentional taking of one's own life. Many dictionaries also note the metaphorical sense of "willful destruction of one's self-interest" (e.g., "political suicide"). Suicide may...
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| Seppuku | Vladimir Mayakovsky | ||||
| Alan Turing | |||||
| Titus Pomponius Atticus | |||||
| Nero | |||||
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| x Drug overdose | Assassination by 'Accident' | Cocaine overdose | Danny Whitten |
The term drug overdose (or simply overdose or OD) describes the ingestion or application of a drug or other substance in quantities greater than are recommended or generally practiced. An overdose is widely considered harmful and dangerous, and it...
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| Assassination by 'Suicide' | Heroin overdose | Edie Sedgwick | |||
| GG Allin | |||||
| Marilyn Monroe | |||||
| Mike Von Erich | |||||
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| x Syphilis |
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Infectious disease | Beau Brummell |
Syphilis is a sexually transmitted disease caused by the spirochetal bacterium Treponema pallidum subspecies pallidum. The route of transmission of syphilis is almost always through sexual contact, although there are examples of congenital syphilis...
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| Assassination in ways which appear natural | Louis Chauvin | ||||
| Charles Baudelaire | |||||
| x Pneumonia |
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Assassination in ways which appear natural | Sonny Tufts |
Pneumonia is an inflammatory illness of the lung. Frequently, it is described as lung parenchyma/alveolar inflammation and abnormal alveolar filling with fluid (consolidation and exudation).
The alveoli are microscopic air-filled sacs in the lungs...
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| John Lindsay | |||||
| Raymond Chandler | |||||
| Charles Nelson Reilly | |||||
| Frank Gorshin | |||||
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| x Influenza |
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Infectious disease | Phoebe Hearst |
Influenza, commonly referred to as the flu, is an infectious disease caused by RNA viruses of the family Orthomyxoviridae (the influenza viruses), that affects birds and mammals. The name influenza comes from the Italian influenza, meaning ...
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| Assassination in ways which appear natural | Rafael Bolivar Coronado | ||||
| James Vernor | |||||
| Wallace Reid | |||||
| Guillaume Apollinaire | |||||
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| x Lung cancer |
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Cancer | Herb Caen |
Lung cancer is a disease of uncontrolled cell growth in tissues of the lung. This growth may lead to metastasis, which is the invasion of adjacent tissue and infiltration beyond the lungs. The vast majority of primary lung cancers are carcinomas of...
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| Assassination in ways which appear natural | Frank Loesser | ||||
| Jimmy Conway | |||||
| Leon Niemczyk | |||||
| Gene McFadden | |||||
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| x Aplastic anemia | Marie Curie |
Aplastic anemia is a condition where bone marrow does not produce sufficient new cells to replenish blood cells.
The term 'aplastic' means the marrow suffers from an aplasia that renders it unable to function properly. Anemia is (per definition) the...
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| x Esophageal cancer |
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Cancer | Humphrey Bogart |
Esophageal cancer is malignancy of the esophagus. There are various subtypes, primarily squamous cell cancer and adenocarcinoma. Squamous cell cancer arises from the cells that line the upper part of the esophagus. Adenocarcinoma arises from...
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| Tom Lantos | |||||
| Jeff Mock | |||||
| Philip Larkin | |||||
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| x Asteroid Impact | Andy Jewell | ||||
| x Helicopter crash | Stevie Ray Vaughan | ||||
| Colin McRae | |||||
| Johnny McRae | |||||
| Gary Powers | |||||
| Patriarch Peter VII of Alexandria | |||||
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| x malnutrition and inanition caused by personality disturbance | Kurt Gödel |
Late in 1977, Adele Gödel became incapacitated due to illness and so could no longer cook for her husband Kurt Gödel. Due to his paranoia, he refused to eat any food at all and thus died of "malnutrition and inanition caused by personality...
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| x Assassination |
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Murder | Assassination by firearm | Mahatma Gandhi |
Assassination is the targeted killing of a public figure. Assassinations may be prompted by ideological, political, or military reasons. Additionally, assassins may be motivated by financial gain, revenge, personal public recognition, or mental...
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| Assassination in ways which appear natural | Indira Gandhi | ||||
| Assassination by 'Suicide' | Benigno Aquino, Jr. | ||||
| Assassination by 'Accident' | Olof Palme | ||||
| Yitzhak Rabin | |||||
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| x Poison | Assassination by 'Accident' | Baldwin III of Jerusalem |
In the context of biology, poisons are substances that can cause disturbances to organisms, usually by chemical reaction or other activity on the molecular scale, when a sufficient quantity is absorbed by an organism. Legally and in hazardous...
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| Assassination in ways which appear natural | Nicolás Bravo | ||||
| Assassination by 'Suicide' | Pyotr Nikolayevich Wrangel | ||||
| Eric XIV of Sweden | |||||
| Munir Said Thalib | |||||
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| x Skiing accident | Sonny Bono | ||||
| Mieczysław Karłowicz | |||||
| Michael Kennedy | |||||
| Michel Trudeau | |||||
| Alfonso, Duke of Anjou and Cádiz | |||||
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| x Inhalation of vomit | Pulmonary aspiration | John Bonham |
Inhalation of vomit, a type of pulmonary aspiration, is a cause of asphyxiation. Several deaths have occurred this way, often this is attributed to the use of drugs that depress the central nervous system.
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| Bon Scott | |||||
| Tammy Homolka | |||||
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| x Asphyxia |
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Assassination in ways which appear natural | Jesse Dirkhising |
Asphyxia (from Greek a-, "without" and σφυγμός (sphygmos), "pulse, heartbeat") is a condition of severely deficient supply of oxygen to the body that arises from being unable to breathe normally. An example of asphyxia is choking. Asphyxia causes...
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| Assassination by 'Accident' | Jonathan Burton | ||||
| Assassination by 'Suicide' | Tiberius | ||||
| Death of Tina Watson | |||||
| x asphyxiation | Gloria Dickson | ||||
| x Pulmonary aspiration | Inhalation of vomit | Molière |
In medicine, aspiration is the entry of secretions or foreign material into the trachea and lungs.
The patient may either inhale the material, or it may be blown into the lungs during positive pressure ventilation or CPR. As the right main bronchus...
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| x Cardiovascular disease | George Rallis |
Vascular disease is a form of cardiovascular disease primarily affecting the blood vessels.
Some conditions, such as myocardial ischemia, can be considered both vascular diseases and heart diseases.
Cigarette smoking is the top risk factor.
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| Frank Gatski | |||||
| Sally Rand | |||||
| Robert A. Heinlein | |||||
| Stanisław Lem | |||||
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| x Infectious disease |
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Disease | Adenovirus infection | Negasi Krestos |
An infectious disease is a clinically evident disease resulting from the presence of pathogenic microbial agents, including pathogenic viruses, pathogenic bacteria, fungi, protozoa, multicellular parasites, and aberrant proteins known as prions....
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| Assassination in ways which appear natural | AIDS | George Montagu | |||
| Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis | Eagle of Delight | ||||
| Andes virus | David Walton | ||||
| Bacterial pneumonia | Edward Adams | ||||
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| x Parasitic disease | Assassination in ways which appear natural |
A parasitic disease is an infectious disease caused or transmitted by a parasite. Many parasites do not cause disease per se. Parasitic diseases can affect practically all living organisms, from plants to mammals. The study of parasitic diseases is...
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| x Ischaemic heart disease |
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Assassination in ways which appear natural |
Ischaemic or ischemic heart disease (IHD), or myocardial ischaemia, is a disease characterized by reduced blood supply to the heart muscle, usually due to coronary artery disease (atherosclerosis of the coronary arteries). Its risk increases with...
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| x Cancer |
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Assassination in ways which appear natural | Throat cancer | Alice Vonnegut |
Cancer (medical term: malignant neoplasm) is a class of diseases in which a group of cells display uncontrolled growth (division beyond the normal limits), invasion (intrusion on and destruction of adjacent tissues), and sometimes metastasis (spread...
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| Bone cancer | John Tufts | ||||
| Lung cancer | Wally Schirra | ||||
| Breast cancer | Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis | ||||
| Oral cancer | Kathleen Antonelli | ||||
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| x Stroke |
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Karoshi | Jack Valenti |
A stroke is the rapidly developing loss of brain function(s) due to disturbance in the blood supply to the brain. This can be due to ischemia (lack of blood supply) caused by thrombosis or embolism or due to a hemorrhage. As a result, the affected...
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| Assassination in ways which appear natural | Thelonious Monk | ||||
| Akira Kurosawa | |||||
| Susan Buffett | |||||
| Georg Friesinger | |||||
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| x Lower respiratory tract infection |
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Assassination in ways which appear natural |
While often used as a synonym for pneumonia, the rubric of lower respiratory tract infection can also be applied to other types of infection including lung abscess, acute bronchitis, and emphysema. Symptoms include shortness of breath, weakness,...
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| x Respiratory disease | Assassination in ways which appear natural | Milton Parker |
Respiratory Disease is the term for diseases of the respiratory system. These include diseases of the lung, pleural cavity, bronchial tubes, trachea, upper respiratory tract and of the nerves and muscles of breathing. Respiratory diseases range from...
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| Jack Wrangler | |||||
| x Respiratory Infection | Assassination in ways which appear natural | Aleister Crowley | |||
| x unintentional injury | Assassination by 'Accident' | ||||
| x AIDS |
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Infectious disease | Jon Hinson |
Acquired immune deficiency syndrome or acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) is a disease of the human immune system caused by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV).
This condition progressively reduces the effectiveness of the immune system...
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| Assassination in ways which appear natural | Jon King | ||||
| Kenny Everett | |||||
| Dr. Peter Jepson-Young | |||||
| John Bindon | |||||
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| x Malaria |
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Infectious disease | Thomas Peters |
Malaria is a vector-borne infectious disease caused by protozoan parasites. It is widespread in tropical and subtropical regions, including parts of the Americas, Asia, and Africa. Each year, there are approximately 350–500 million cases of malaria,...
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| Assassination in ways which appear natural | Osceola | ||||
| Vasco da Gama | |||||
| Pope Urban VII | |||||
| Louis III of Naples | |||||
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| x Diabetes mellitus |
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Assassination in ways which appear natural | George Hislop |
The term 'diabetes' derived from the greek word diabainein that means "passing through" or "siphon", a reference to one of its major symptoms- exccesive urine produnction was coined by Aretaeus of Cappadocia (Saxena et al, 2008)*. Diabetes mellitus ...
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| Edward L. Masry | |||||
| Dave Cockrum | |||||
| Zein Isa | |||||
| Don Walser | |||||
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| x Stomach cancer |
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Cancer | Louis Napoleon Bonaparte |
Stomach or gastric cancer can develop in any part of the stomach and may spread throughout the stomach and to other organs; particularly the esophagus, lungs and the liver. Stomach cancer causes about 800,000 deaths worldwide per year.
Stomach...
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| Assassination in ways which appear natural | Ingrid von Rosen | ||||
| Fulton Mackay | |||||
| Enrico Fermi | |||||
| Jack Gilford | |||||
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| x Cirrhosis |
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Jack Kerouac |
Cirrhosis is a consequence of chronic liver disease characterized by replacement of liver tissue by fibrous scar tissue as well as regenerative nodules (lumps that occur as a result of a process in which damaged tissue is regenerated), leading to...
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| Wendell Corey | |||||
| Matei Pavel Haiducu | |||||
| John Mirabella | |||||
| Beny Moré | |||||
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| x Nephritis | Assassination in ways which appear natural | Umm Kulthum |
Nephritis is inflammation of the kidney. The word comes from the Greek nephro- meaning "of the kidney" and -itis meaning "inflammation". Nephritis is often caused by infections, toxins, and auto-immune diseases.
Nephritis is the most common cause of...
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| Kanbun Uechi | |||||
| Sam Paul | |||||
| Alexander III of Russia | |||||
| Gregor Mendel | |||||
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| x Colorectal cancer |
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Cancer | Claude Debussy |
Colorectal cancer, also called colon cancer or large bowel cancer, includes cancerous growths in the colon, rectum and appendix. With 655,000 deaths worldwide per year, it is the third most common form of cancer and the second leading cause of...
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| Assassination in ways which appear natural | Lillian Board | ||||
| Trevor Barker | |||||
| Charles M. Schulz | |||||
| James E. West | |||||
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| x Liver cancer |
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Cancer | Rod Trongard |
Hepatic tumors are tumors or growths on or in the liver (medical terms pertaining to the liver often start in hepato- or hepatic from the Greek word for liver, hepar). These growths can be benign or malignant (cancerous). They may be discovered on...
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| Phillip Rastelli | |||||
| Jim Cronin | |||||
| Flip Wilson | |||||
| Mickey Mantle | |||||
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| x Measles |
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Infectious disease |
Measles (IPA: /ˈmizəlz/) is an infection of the respiratory system caused by a virus, specifically a paramyxovirus of the genus Morbillivirus. Morbilliviruses, like other paramyxoviruses, are enveloped, single-stranded, negative-sense RNA viruses....
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| x Alzheimer's disease |
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Eric Myers |
Alzheimer's disease (AD), also called Alzheimer disease, Senile Dementia of the Alzheimer Type (SDAT) or simply Alzheimer's, is the most common form of dementia. This incurable, degenerative, and terminal disease was first described by German...
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| Sneaky Pete Kleinow | |||||
| Ronald Reagan | |||||
| Lowell English | |||||
| Fernando Romeo Lucas García | |||||
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| x fall | Assassination by 'Suicide' | Maria Malibran | |||
| Assassination by 'Accident' | Matthew Jay | ||||
| x Drowning |
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Assassination by 'Suicide' | Li Bai |
Drowning is death from suffocation (asphyxia) caused by a liquid entering the lungs and preventing the absorption of oxygen leading to cerebral hypoxia and myocardial infarction.
Near drowning is the survival of a drowning event involving...
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| Assassination by 'Accident' | Maurice E. Crumpacker | ||||
| Dean Reed | |||||
| Kayo Hatta | |||||
| John Conn | |||||
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| x Lymphoma |
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Cancer | Jerome Levine |
Lymphoma is a type of cancer that originates in lymphocytes of the immune system. They often originate in lymph nodes, presenting as an enlargement of the node (a tumour). Lymphomas are closely related to lymphoid leukemias, which also originate in...
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| Don Durant | |||||
| Joe Glazer | |||||
| Howard Carter | |||||
| James Cameron | |||||
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| x Rheumatic fever |
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Infectious disease | Gérard Kerouac |
Rheumatic fever is an inflammatory disease that may develop two to three weeks after a Group A streptococcal infection (such as strep throat or scarlet fever). It is believed to be caused by antibody cross-reactivity and can involve the heart,...
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| James Cowles Prichard | |||||
| x Appendix cancer | Cancer | Audrey Hepburn |
Appendix cancer or appendiceal cancer is a malignancy of the vermiform appendix, accounting for about 1 in 200 of all gastrointestinal malignancies.
This is a very rare condition and can vary in type, the most common type being carcinoid tumor with...
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| x Decapitation |
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Seppuku | Guillotine | Gian-Carlo Coppola |
Decapitation (from Latin, caput, capita, meaning head), or beheading, is the separation of the head of a person or animal from its body. Beheading typically refers to the act of intentional decapitation, e.g., as a means of murder or execution; it...
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| Francesco Bussone da Carmagnola | |||||
| Eugen Weidmann | |||||
| Edgar André | |||||
| Karl Ludwig Sand | |||||
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| x Myelodysplastic syndrome | Carl Sagan |
The myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS, formerly known as "preleukemia") are a diverse collection of hematological conditions united by ineffective production (or dysplasia) of myeloid blood cells and risk of transformation to acute myelogenous leukemia...
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| Roald Dahl | |||||
| Nina Foch | |||||
| Harry Harris | |||||
| x Arsenic poisoning | Poisoning | Louis Napoleon Bonaparte |
Arsenic poisoning kills by allosteric inhibition of essential metabolic enzymes, leading to death from multi-system organ failure. It primarily inhibits enzymes that require lipoic acid as a cofactor, such as pyruvate and alpha-ketoglutarate...
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| x Execution by lethal gas | Gee Jon | ||||
| Petr Ginz | |||||
| x Tuberculosis |
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Infectious disease | Virginia Eliza Clemm Poe |
Tuberculosis (abbreviated as TB for tubercle bacillus or Tuberculosis) is a common and often deadly infectious disease caused by mycobacteria, in humans mainly Mycobacterium tuberculosis . Tuberculosis usually attacks the lungs (as pulmonary TB) but...
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| Assassination in ways which appear natural | Aubrey Beardsley | ||||
| Maria Yakunchikova | |||||
| John Sibthorp | |||||
| Anders Celsius | |||||
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| x Traumatic brain injury |
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Assassination by 'Accident' | Kurt Vonnegut |
Traumatic brain injury (TBI, also called intracranial injury) occurs when an outside force traumatically injures the brain. TBI can be classified based on severity, mechanism (closed or penetrating head injury), or other features (e.g. occurring in...
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| Robert Fergusson | |||||
| Jon-Erik Hexum | |||||
| Russ Columbo | |||||
| Vladimir Viktorovich Smirnov | |||||
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| x Head injury | Roboticide | Jack Nance |
Head injury refers to trauma to the head. This may or may not include injury to the brain. However, the terms traumatic brain injury and head injury are often used interchangeably in the medical literature.
The incidence (number of new cases) of...
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| Assassination by 'Accident' | Crispin Beltran | ||||
| Adam Petty | |||||
| Bill Masterton | |||||
| Blaise Alexander | |||||
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| x Execution by burning |
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Jeanne d' Arc |
Execution by burning, (also known as burning alive), has a long history as a method of punishment for crimes such as treason, heresy and witchcraft (burning, however, was actually less common than hanging, pressing, or drowning as a punishment for...
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| Hypatia of Alexandria | |||||
| x Execution by shooting |
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Arthur Hoffmann |
Execution by shooting is a form of capital punishment whereby an executed person is shot by one or more firearms. It is the most common method of execution worldwide, used in about 70 countries, with execution by firing squad being one particular...
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| Andrei Chikatilo | |||||
| Breaker Morant | |||||
| x Execution by firing squad |
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Capital punishment | Elena Ceauşescu |
Execution by firing squad is a method of capital punishment, particularly common in times of war. The firing squad is generally composed of several soldiers or peace officers. The method of execution requires all members of the group to fire...
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| Nicolae Ceauşescu | |||||
| Mildred Harnack | |||||
| Werner von Haeften | |||||
| José Rizal | |||||
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| x Respiratory failure |
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Assassination in ways which appear natural | Jon Hinson |
The term respiratory failure, in medicine, is used to describe inadequate gas exchange by the respiratory system, with the result that arterial oxygen and/or carbon dioxide levels cannot be maintained within their normal ranges. A drop in blood...
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| Suzanne Pleshette | |||||
| Suharto | |||||
| Robert W. Funk | |||||
| Eleanor Audley | |||||
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| x Battle | Niall of the Nine Hostages | ||||
| Edward Bruce | |||||
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| Muirchertach MacLochlainn | |||||
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