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Terminally Ill

"Terminally Ill" 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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Persons with an incurable or irreversible illness at the end stage that will result in death within a short time. (From O'Leary et al., Lexikon: Dictionary of Health Care Terms, Organizations, and Acronyms for the Era of Reform, 1994, p780)


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Terminally Ill" by people in this website by year, and whether "Terminally Ill" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 20 publications over 16 distinct years, with a maximum of 3 publications in 2014
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