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• Death (Biology)
• Decomposition (Chemistry)

• Adipocere
• Autolysis
• Rigor Mortis

• Change after death
• Change, Postmortem
• Changes after death
• Changes, Postmortem
• Post-mortem changes

• Experimental studies on post-mortem changes in mallards ([U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, 1970), by Thomas L. Morrow, F. A. Glover, and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die postmortale Reaktion der Muskulatur bei den Schlachttieren. (Druck von Leistner & Drewfs, 1908), by Robert Straetz (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• On adipocire, and its formation, by Charles Mayer Wetherill (Gutenberg ebook)

• On adipocire, and its formation, by Charles Mayer Wetherill (Gutenberg ebook)

• Microbic dissociation; the instability of bacterial species with special reference to active dissociation and transmissible autolysis. ([Chicago, 1927), by Philip Bardwell Hadley (page images at HathiTrust)

• Paper of Lt. Charles Gentsch. (s.n., 1907), by Charles Gentsch (page images at HathiTrust)
• On the effects of solutions of various electrolytes and non-conductors upon rigor mortis and heat rigor (s.n.], 1902), by Anne Moore (page images at HathiTrust)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• The chemistry of death. (Thomas, 1963), by W. E. D. Evans (page images at HathiTrust)
• Life and death of cells. (Hanover House, 1957), by Joseph G. Hoffman (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Injury, recovery, and death, in relation to conductivity and permeability (J.B. Lippincott Company, 1922), by W. J. V. Osterhout (page images at HathiTrust)
• Physiological researches upon life and death (Smith & Maxwell, 1809), by Xavier Bichat, Tobias Watkins, and Smith & Maxwell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Recherches physiologiques sur la vie et la mort (Charpentier, 1859), by Xavier Bichat and docteur Cerise (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ueber Leben und Tod. Eine biologische Untersuchung. (G. Fischer, 1892), by August Weismann (page images at HathiTrust)
• La matière brute et la matière vivante : étude sur l'origine de la vie et de la mort (Baillière et Cie, 1887), by Joseph R. L. Delbœf (page images at HathiTrust)
• Levels and trends of mortality in Indonesia, 1961 to 1971 (U.S. Dept. of Commerce, Bureau of the Census, International Statistical Programs Center : for sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1975), by Larry Heligman and United States. Bureau of the Census. International Statistical Programs Office (page images at HathiTrust)
• Physiological researches on life and death (Richardson and Lord, 1827), by Xavier Bichat, George Hayward, François Magendie, and F. Gold (page images at HathiTrust)
• Recherches physiologiques sur la vie et la mort (Gabon [etc.], 1822), by Xavier Bichat and François Magendie (page images at HathiTrust)
• Recherches physiologiques sur la vie et la mort (Chez Victor Masson, 1852), by Xavier Bichat and Laurent Alexandre Philibert Cerise Cerise (page images at HathiTrust)
• Das Problem des Todes und der Unsterblichkeit bei den Pflanzen und Tieren (G. Fischer, 1919), by Franz Doflein (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Recherches physiologiques sur la vie et la mort (Béchet jeune :, 1829), by Xavier Bichat and François Magendie (page images at HathiTrust)
• Der Tod aus Altersschwäche (F. Cohen, 1908), by Hugo Ribbert (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Recherches physiologiques sur la vie et la mort. (Charpentier, 1866), by Xavier Bichat and docteur Cerise (page images at HathiTrust)
• Über Leben und Tod; eine biologische Untersuchung. (G. Fischer, 1892), by August Weismann (page images at HathiTrust)
• Physiologische Untersuchungen über den Tod. (Zentralantiquariat der DDR, 1968), by Xavier Bichat and Rudolf Boehm (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Physiologische untersuchungen über den tod (J. A. Barth, 1912), by Xavier Bichat (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• De l'assistance corporelle et spirituelle des moribonds (Librairie L.J.A. Derome, 1911), by J. I. Desroches (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The problem of age, growth, and death : a study of cytomorphosis, based on lectures at the Lowell Institute, March, 1907 (J. Murray, 1908), by Charles Sedgwick Minot (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Essai sur la vie et la mort (Ve. Babé, 1892), by Armand Sabatier (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ueber Leben und Tod : eine biologische Untersuchung (Gustav Fischer, 1884), by August Weismann (page images at HathiTrust)
• Recherches physiologiques sur la vie et la mort, (Paris : Fortin, Masson, [1844?], 1844), by Xavier Bichat and Docteur Cerise (page images at HathiTrust)
• Vom Leben und vom Tod : biologische Vorträge (Diederichs, 1919), by Wilhelm Fliess (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Recherches sur la vie et la mort (Chez M. Gautret, 1839), by Xavier Bichat, M. Le Gallois, and M. F. R. Buisson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Investigation and analysis of a mass mortality of commercial lobsters (Homarus americanus) in Seabrook Harbor, New Hampshire during October of 1977 (Washington, D.C. : U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation, Division of Site Safety and Environmental Analysis, 1978., 1978), by C. R. Hickey and U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation. Division of Site Safety and Environmental Analysis (page images at HathiTrust)
• Death: its causes and phenomena, with special reference to immortality (W. Rider & son, limited, 1911), by Hereward Carrington and John Richard Meader (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Recherches physiologiques sur la vie et la mort (Ladrange :, 1818), by Xavier Bichat (page images at HathiTrust)
• Physiological Researches on Life and Death, by Xavier Bichat, trans. by F. Gold and George Hayward, contrib. by François Magendie (Gutenberg ebook)

• The Historie of Life and Death, With Observations Naturall and Experimentall For the Prolonging of Life (London: Printed by I. Okes for H. Mosley, 1638), by Francis Bacon
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• Historia vitae et mortis. English (London : Printed by Iohn Haviland for William Lee, and Humphrey Mosley, 1638), by Francis Bacon and William Rawley (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Controversies in the Determination of Death: A White Paper of the President's Council on Bioethics (2008), by President's Council on Bioethics (U.S.) (HTML and PDF at Georgetown)
• The NINCDS collaborative study of brain death. (U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Neurological and Communicative Disorders and Stroke ;, 1980) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Recherches physiologiques sur la vie et la mort, (Paris : Fortin, Masson, [1844?], 1844), by Xavier Bichat and Docteur Cerise (page images at HathiTrust)
• NINCDS collaborative study of brain death. (The Institute, 1980), by National Institute of Neurological and Communicative Disorders and Stroke (page images at HathiTrust)

• Observation Intéressante et Mémoire a Consulter Sur la Maladie d'une Petite Fille et l'État de Son Cadavre: Où L'on Invite les Habiles Médecins du Royaume À Prononcer Sur la Cause de Sa Mort (in French; 1778), by Gabriel-Hubert Retz (page images at NIH)
• Medical impairment study, 1929. (Compiled and published by the Actuarial society of America and the Association of life insurance medical directors, 1931), by Actuarial Society of America and Association of Life Insurance Medical Directors of America (page images at HathiTrust)
• Modes of statement of cause of death and duration of illness upon certificates of death. (Govt. print. off., 1907), by United States Bureau of the Census (page images at HathiTrust)
• Twenty-five years of health progress; a study of the mortality experience among the industrial policyholders of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company 1911 to 1935 (Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, 1937), by Louis I. Dublin, Alfred J. Lotka, Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, and Metropolitan Life Insurance Company. Statistical Bureau (page images at HathiTrust)
• Health progress, 1936 to 1945; a supplement to Twenty-five years of health progress. (Metropolitan Life Insurance Co., 1948), by Louis I. Dublin and Metropolitan Life Insurance Company. Statistical Bureau (page images at HathiTrust)
• Deutsche sterbetafeln für das jahrzehnt 1891 bis 1900. (Puttkammer & Mühlbrecht, 1910), by Germany. Statistisches Reichsamt (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Human conservation : the story of our wasted resources. (U. S. Govt. print. off, 1943), by United States. National Resources Planning Board (page images at HathiTrust)
• Outline of death investigation. (Thomas, 1962), by Raymond I. Harris (page images at HathiTrust)
• Investigation of death (Springfield, Ill., Thomas, 1957), by Donald Karl Merkeley (page images at HathiTrust)
• Manual of the international list of causes of death based on the second decennial revision by the International Commission, Paris, July 1 to 3, 1909. (Govt. Print. Off., 1918), by United States Bureau of the Census, William H. Davis, and International Commission for the Decennial Revision of Nosological Nomenclature (page images at HathiTrust)
• Manual of the international list of causes of death : based on the third decennial revision by the International Commission, Paris, October 11 to 15, 1920. (United States Government Printing Office, 1924), by United States Bureau of the Census, William H. Davis, and International Commission for the Decennial Revision of Nosological Nomenclature (page images at HathiTrust)
• Manual of the international list of causes of death based on the fourth decennial revision by the International commission, Paris, October 16 to 19, 1929. (U. S. Govt. print. off., 1931), by United States Bureau of the Census and International Commission for the Decennial Revision of Nosological Nomenclature (page images at HathiTrust)
• Manual of joint causes of death (U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1940), by United States Bureau of the Census, Theodore Armin Janssen, and International Commission for the Decennial Revision of Nosological Nomenclature (page images at HathiTrust)
• Commission internationale chargée de reviser la nomenclature des causes de décès (Chaix, 1900), by International Commission for the Decennial Revision of Nosological Nomenclature, Jacques Bertillon, and Seine (France) Direction des affaires municipales (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Manual of joint causes of death showing assignment to the preferred title of the international list of causes of death when two causes are simultaneously reported. (U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1933), by United States Bureau of the Census, John O. Spain, and T. F. Murphy (page images at HathiTrust)
• Manual of the international list of causes of death : based on the Second decennial revision by the International commission, Paris, July 1 to 3, 1909 (United States Government Printing Office, 1913), by United States Bureau of the Census, Cressy L. Wilbur, and International Commission for the Decennial Revision of Nosological Nomenclature (page images at HathiTrust)
• Special report on contributory causes of death, 1926 ... (F. A. Acland, printer, 1929), by Canada Dominion Bureau of Statistics (page images at HathiTrust)
• Registration of deaths: practical methods to secure complete returns. The standard certificate of death. ([Govt. print. off.], 1903), by United States. Census Office. 12th census and United States Bureau of the Census (page images at HathiTrust)
• Manual of joint causes of death showing assignment to the preferred title of the international list of causes of death when two causes are simultaneously reported. (Govt. print. off., 1925), by United States Bureau of the Census, John O. Spain, and William H. Davis (page images at HathiTrust)
• Cause di morte (Roma, 1882), by Istituto centrale di statistica (Italy) and Italy. Direzione generale della statistica (page images at HathiTrust)
• Impairment study, 1936. (Compiled and published by the Actuarial society of America and the Association of life insurance medical directors, 1936), by Actuarial Society of America and Association of Life Insurance Medical Directors of America (page images at HathiTrust)
• Impairment study, 1938. (Compiled and published by the Actuarial society of America and the Association of life insurance medical directors, 1939), by Actuarial Society of America and Association of Life Insurance Medical Directors of America (page images at HathiTrust)
• Traité de la mort apparente. Des principales maladies qui peuvent donner lieu aux inhumations précipitées. Des signes de la mort. (Béchet jne. et Labé, 1841), by Jean Baptiste Vigné (page images at HathiTrust)
• Drugs and death : the nonmedical use of drugs related to all modes of death : [prepared for the National Institute on Drug Abuse (The Institute, 1975), by Documentation Associates, Dan J Lettieri, Thomas Lennox, Patricia Ferguson, and National Institute on Drug Abuse (page images at HathiTrust)
• Improved postmortem detection of carbon monoxide and cyanide : summary of a research study (U.S. Dept. of Justice, Office of Justice Programs, National Institute of Justice, 1996), by Barry K. Logan and National Institute of Justice (U.S.) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Homicide et suicide : essai de diagnostic differentiel (A. Crépin-Leblond, 1912), by Raymond Midon (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Handbook of death : mechanisms, causes and certification (R.P. Morhardt, 1946), by Robert P. Morhardt and John Main (page images at HathiTrust)
• Warum wir sterben (Kosmos, gesellschaft der naturfreunde, 1914), by Alejandro Lipschütz (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Differential mortality in Virginia (Bureau of Population and Economic Research, University of Virginia, 1947), by John Lambert Molyneaux (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• La mort des rois de France depuis François Ier.; études médicales et historiques. (Champion, 1892), by Auguste Corlieu (page images at HathiTrust)
• Statistique des causes de décès de l'empire du Japon. (Tokio., 1906), by Japan. Naikaku Tōkeikyoku (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Manual of the international list of causes of death based on the fourth decennial revision by the International commission, Paris, October 16 to 19, 1929. (Advance print, for revision) (U. S. Govt. print. off., 1931), by United States Bureau of the Census and International commission for the decennial revision of nosological nomenclature (page images at HathiTrust)
• Physicians' handbook on death and birth registration. (U. S. Govt. Print. Off., 1949), by United States. National Office of Vital Statistics (page images at HathiTrust)
• Relation of physicians to mortality statistics. The international classification of causes of deaths as adopted by the United States census office and approved by the American public health association ... ([Gov't print. off.], 1903), by United States Bureau of the Census (page images at HathiTrust)
• Causes of death by occupation : occupational morality experience of the Metropolitan life insurance company, Industrial department, 1911-1913. (Govt. print. off., 1917), by Louis Israel Dublin, United States Bureau of Labor Statistics, and Metropolitan Life Insurance Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• Analysis of DOD's on-duty non-aviation accident fatalities (The Office, 1998), by United States General Accounting Office and United States. Dept. of Defense (page images at HathiTrust)
• Annual report of the Social Welfare Department of the City and County of Denver, Colorado. (The Department], 1913), by Denver (Colo.). Social Welfare Dept (page images at HathiTrust)
• Du suicide ... (de L'Imprimerie de St. Michel et Darveau, 1859), by François Alexandre Hubert La Rue (page images at HathiTrust)
• Statistical treatment of causes of death; cooperative work relative to treatment of jointly returned causes and the revision of the international classification. ([Washington?, 1904), by United States Bureau of the Census (page images at HathiTrust)
• Physicians' pocket reference to the international list of causes of death. (Govt. print. off. , 1916), by United States Bureau of the Census and Richard C. Lappin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Death of males between the ages of twenty and eighty in Massachusetts during the eight years ending Dec. 31, 1878, arranged to show the comparative fatality of the various diseases and violent causes of death ... (Rand, Avery & Co., 1880), by New York Life Insurance Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• De la fréquence des principales maladies à Paris pendant la période 1865-91 (Impr. municipale, 1894), by Jacques Bertillon (page images at HathiTrust)
• One hundred cases in the Coroner's Court of Montreal, 1893 (s.n., 1893), by Wyatt Johnston (page images at HathiTrust)
• Six months' medical evidence in the Coroner's Court of Montreal (January to June, 1893) (s.n., 1893), by Wyatt Johnston, George Villeneuve, and Medico-Chirurgical Society of Montreal (page images at HathiTrust)
• Legal medicine (s.n., 1900), by Wyatt Johnston (page images at HathiTrust)
• Les verdicts de la Cour du coroner du district de Montréal pour le premier semestre de 1893, au point de vue médicale (s.n., 1893), by Wyatt Johnston and George Villeneuve (page images at HathiTrust)
• Manual of international classification of causes of death; adopted by the United States Census Office for the compilation of mortality statistics, for use beginning with the year 1900. (Govt. Print. Off., 1902), by United States Census Office, William A. King, and International Commission for the Decennial Revision of Nosological Nomenclature (page images at HathiTrust)
• Industrial accidents and hygiene series (U.S. Govt. Print Off., 1930), by United States Bureau of Labor Statistics and Louis I. Dublin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Preventable death in cotton manufacturing industry (Govt. Print. Off., 1919), by Arthur Reed Perry and United States Bureau of Labor Statistics (page images at HathiTrust)
• La statistica mortuaria applicata all'igiene pubblica. (Rechiedei, 1872), by Cesare Contini (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mortuary experience of the Mutual Life Insurance Company of New-York. From 1843 to 1874. ([New York, 1876), by Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York (page images at HathiTrust)
• Einfluss der Confession : des Wohlstandes und der Beschatigung auf die Todesursachen. (Puttkammer & Muhlbrecht, 1898), by József Kőrösi (page images at HathiTrust)
• Xiang yan zong lun : Bi shi cang ben : [2 juan]. (s.n., in the 19th century) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Preliminary report of the mortality experience of the Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York. From 1843 to 1874. (Printed by order of the Board of Trustees, 1876), by Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York, Elias J. Marsh, and Gustavus Storrs Winston (page images at HathiTrust)
• Interim report and recommendations (The Task Force, 1994), by Illinois Child Fatality Task Force (page images at HathiTrust)
• Final report : Illinois Child Fatality Task Force (The Task Force, 1995), by Illinois Child Fatality Task Force (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sudden infant death syndrome : a guide for coroners (Sudden Infant Death Syndrome Information and Counseling Project, Illinois Dept. of Public Health, 1981), by Sudden Infant Death Syndrome Information and Counseling Project (Ill.) and Illinois. Dept. of Public Health (page images at HathiTrust)
• Annual report of deaths in the city and county of New York, for the year 1828 (Printed by Peter Van Pelt, 1829), by New York (N.Y.). City Inspector's Department, Isaac Warren, Seymour B. Durst, and New York (N.Y.). Common Council (page images at HathiTrust)
• Nomenclatura para la estadística de las defunciones (Impr. y fototipia de la Secretaria de Fomento, 1913), by Salvador Echagaray and Mexico. Dirección General de Estadística (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Annual report. ([New York], in the 19th century), by New York (N.Y.). City Inspector (page images at HathiTrust)
• Reports of the registrar general (H.M. Stationery Off., between 1000 and 1999), by Great Britain. General Register Office (page images at HathiTrust)
• Manual of the international list of causes of death : based on the 3rd decennial revision of the International Commission, Paris, Octobe 11 to 15, 1920. (G.P.O., 1924), by United States Bureau of the Census (page images at HathiTrust)
• An analysis of certain causes of mortality in the Philippine Islands with reference to changes in administrative policy (University of California Press, 1928), by Eschscholtzia Lichthardt Lucia and Laura Stahike Haymond (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mortality in the United States. (Hyattsville, MD : U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Health Statistics, 2014-, 2012), by National Center for Health Statistics (U.S.) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Patient deaths at Elgin State Hospital : a report to the Illinois General Assembly (The Commission, 1974), by Illinois. General Assembly. Legislative Investigating Commission (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Physicians' handbook on death and birth registration. (U.S. Dept. of Health Education and Welfare, Public Health Service, National Office of Vital Statistics :, 1958), by United States. National Office of Vital Statistics (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memphis Fire Department, Memphis, Tennessee (U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health ;, 1994), by National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (page images at HathiTrust)
• Georgia, disease patterns of the 70's. (Georgia Dept. of Human Resources, Division of Physical Health, Health Services Research and Statistics Section, 1976), by Georgia. Health Services Research and Statistics Section (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Increase in suicide in the United States, 1999-2014 (Hyattsville, MD : U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Health Statistics, 2016., 2016), by Sally C. Curtin, Holly Hedegaard, Margaret Warner, and National Center for Health Statistics (U.S.) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Annual report. ([New York], in the 19th century), by New York (N.Y.). City Inspector (page images at HathiTrust)
• Manual of the international list of causes of death as adapted for use in England and Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland. Index ... : for use with the Medical Research Council's provisional classfication of diseases and injuries, 1943 (Special report series, no. 248). (H.M.S.O., 1944), by Great Britain. General Register Office, Medical Research Council (Great Britain). Committee on Hospital Morbidity Statistics, Scotland. General Register House, Northern Ireland. Ministry of Finance. Registrar-General's Division, and International Commission for the Decennial Revision of Noslogical Nomenclature (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fatal workplace injuries in 1996 : a collection of data and analysis. (U.S. Dept. of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics, 1998), by United States Bureau of Labor Statistics (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fatal workplace injuries in 1994 : a collection of data and analysis. (U.S. Dept. of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics, 1996), by United States Bureau of Labor Statistics (page images at HathiTrust)
• Physicians' pocket reference to the International list of causes of death. (Washington, 1927), by United States Bureau of the Census (page images at HathiTrust)
• Warum wir sterben (in German), by Alejandro Lipschütz (Gutenberg ebook)

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