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Cause of Death

"Cause of Death" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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Factors which produce cessation of all vital bodily functions. They can be analyzed from an epidemiologic viewpoint.


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Cause of Death" by people in this website by year, and whether "Cause of Death" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 197 publications over 31 distinct years, with a maximum of 18 publications in 2009
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