单词 | terminally ill |
释义 | > as lemmasterminally ill a. Medicine. In the terminal stage (of a disease or pathological process); fatally; at or near the time of death. Now esp. in terminally ill. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > dead person or the dead > [adverb] > dying adeatha1200 dyingly1435 expiringly1835 terminally1895 1895 Amer. Jrnl. Med. Sci. 5 614 It [sc. a special form of meningo-encephalitis] is characterized by cellular infiltration and sclerosis, minute hemorrhages, and terminally atrophy. 1909 Lancet 6 Feb. 380/1 The case was therefore one of lardaceous disease following syphilis, complicated by hæmorrhage, presumably from the kidney, and, terminally, from the bowel. 1947 Amer. Jrnl. Nursing 47 216/1 A nine-year-old child, terminally ill with Hodgkin's disease. 1969 M. Alpers in C. W. M. Whitby et al. Virus Dis. & Nerv. Syst. 89 Terminally, the motor system is generally depressed, except for pseudobulbar signs. 2015 Church Times 21 Aug. 11/2 The Bill would allow a terminally ill adult in England or Wales to receive a lethal prescription for self-administration, supervised by ‘an attending health professional’. < as lemmas |
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