Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Suicide accomplished with the aid of a physician.
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- noun
suicide with theassistance of aphysician
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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She was the controversial retired pathologist's first reported "medicide" patient.
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After three days of continuous sweating under two heavy homemade wool blankets (basically comprising shredded and stretched clumps of wool inserted into a body-length cotton casing), promoted by drinking several cups of hot tea and some tea-like medicide called Fervex (which I do not recommend as it does nothing) as well as cheap Russian aspirin, I was finally able to get out of bed and thus back to Yerevan on Tuesday morning, August 9.
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After three days of continuous sweating under two heavy homemade wool blankets (basically comprising shredded and stretched clumps of wool inserted into a body-length cotton casing), promoted by drinking several cups of hot tea and some tea-like medicide called Fervex (which I do not recommend as it does nothing) as well as cheap Russian aspirin, I was finally able to get out of bed and thus back to Yerevan on Tuesday morning, August 9.
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Call it "medicide" like Kevorkian did, or the value-neutral "aid in death" like the folks at
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Janice Van Dyck 2011
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Call it "medicide" like Kevorkian did, or the value-neutral "aid in death" like the folks at
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Janice Van Dyck 2011
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