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Everyone dies, and so we naturally associate death with the end of an individual life. However, life is much more complicated, and death is actually interwoven into biology at many levels.
- About The Dead Man and Fungi
The dead man has changed his mind about moss and mold.About...
- Defining Life and Death
This chapter will focus on the biological definition of...
- Ashes to Ashes and Dust to Dust
The Biology of Death: How Dying Shapes Cells, Organisms, and...
- Future of Death
Many diseases have been conquered. However, death might be...
- Preface
Death is actually interwoven into life at many levels. It...
- Death on a Grand Scale
To understand mass extinctions, it is helpful to understand...
- About The Dead Man and Fungi
21 paź 2021 · This chapter will focus on the biological definition of death. Biologists can live comfortably with an understanding of what life and death are, but for some situations a more precise definition is mandatory. That need manifests itself legally at the extremes of life: the beginning and the end.
13 cze 2023 · Death of the physical body is an intrinsic, time governed, built-in ontolytic program. It completes the biologic trajectory of the individual organism which begins at conception and ends with death. In this article, the actual built-in mechanism and operation of the physiological process of death is suggested vis-a-vis biology and medicine.
20 mar 2024 · Learn about apoptosis in cell biology. Get the definition, understand its importance, and compare apoptosis with necrosis.
1 lis 2005 · This article emphasizes that brain death equals death; focuses on the differences between brain death and the vegetative state; argues that the neocortical definition of death cannot be ...
INTRODUCTION. Advances in medicine and technology have made it possible to support, repair, or replace failing organs, challenging commonly held notions of life and death. 1 For example, mechanical ventilation replaced respiration and supported heart function to prevent cardiac arrest, which interrupted the way death occurred.
11 sty 2024 · Biological paradigm: (i) a definition of death as irreversible breakdown in the functioning of the organism as whole; (ii) two criteria for death, namely, brain death and irreversible cessation of cardiorespiratory functions; and (iii) tests to check whether criteria have been met in specific cases.
