单词 | right-to-die |
释义 | right-to-die[ rahyt-tuh-dahy ] / ˈraɪt təˈdaɪ / adjectiveasserting or advocating the right to refuse extraordinary medical measures to prolong one's life when one is terminally ill or irreversibly comatose: right-to-die laws. Origin of right-to-dieFirst recorded in 1975–80 Words nearby right-to-dieright tack, right testicular vein, right-thinking, right thoracic duct, right to choose, right-to-die, right-to-know, right-to-left shunt, right-to-life, right-to-work, right-to-work law Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Medical definitions for right-to-dieright-to-die adj.Advocating or expressing, as in a living will, a person's right to refuse extraordinary life-sustaining measures intended to prolong life artificially when the person is deemed by his or her physicians to be terminally or incurably ill. The American Heritage® Stedman's Medical Dictionary Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. |
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