cause of death

English

Noun

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.
   • 2015 February 26, Francis S. Collins, Harold Varmus, “A New Initiative on Precision Medicine”, in The New England Journal of Medicine, volume 372, number 9, →DOI, pages 793–794:

     Cancers are common diseases; in the aggregate, they are among the leading causes of death nationally and worldwide, and their incidence is increasing as the population ages.

Related terms

• manner of death
• mechanism of death

Translations

official cause of a human death

• Arabic: سَبَب مَوْت m (sabab mawt), سَبَب وَفَاة m (sabab wafāh)
• Belarusian: прычы́на сме́рці f (pryčýna smjérci)
• Bulgarian: причи́на за смъртта́ f (pričína za smǎrttá)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 死因 (zh) (sǐyīn)

• Czech: příčina smrti f, příčina úmrtí f
• Danish: dødsårsag (da) c
• Dutch: doodsoorzaak (nl) f
• Finnish: kuolinsyy (fi), kuolemansyy (fi)
• French: cause de la mort f, cause du décès f
• German: Todesursache (de) f
• Italian: causa di morte f
• Japanese: 死因 (ja) (しいん, shiin)
• Korean: 사인(死因) (ko) (sain), 사망원인(死亡原因) (samang'wonin)
• Lushootseed: tiʔiɬ dəxʷuʔatəbəds əlgʷəʔ
• Macedonian: при́чина за смрт f (príčina za smrt)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: dødsårsak (no) m or f

  Nynorsk: dødsårsak f

• Persian: علت مرگ ('ellat-e marg)
• Polish: przyczyna śmierci f
• Russian: причи́на сме́рти f (pričína smérti)
• Slovak: príčina úmrtia f, príčina smrti f
• Spanish: causa de la muerte f
• Swedish: dödsorsak (sv) c
• Ukrainian: причи́на сме́рті f (pryčýna smérti)