Death Dictionary: Over 5,500 Clinical, Legal, Literary, and Vernacular Terms

Christine Quigley

McFarland, 1994 - Family & Relationships - 195 pages

From police jargon to medical terminology, from the coarse language of death row to literary euphemisms, over 5,550 words and terms associated directly with death and dying are defined in this unique dictionary. The entries have been collected from 65 cultures, nine religions and 20 fields of study, including archeology, cryonics, theology, theater and the military. Definitions are identified (e.g., archaic, obsolete, slang) and, when appropriate, the occupation it is most closely connected to and variants of the expression are provided. The appended thesaurus gives commonly used words and the terms that are synonymous with them.

Contents

• Symbols and Abbreviations: 11
• Thesaurus: 167
• Bibliography: 193

Bibliographic information

• Title: Death Dictionary: Over 5,500 Clinical, Legal, Literary, and Vernacular Terms
• Editor: Christine Quigley
• Compiled by: Christine Quigley
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: McFarland, 1994
• Original from: the University of Michigan
• Digitized: Dec 29, 2006
• ISBN: 0899508693, 9780899508696
• Length: 195 pages
• Subjects: Family & Relationships / Death, Grief, Bereavement; Reference / Dictionaries; Reference / General; Social Science / Death & Dying; Social Science / Reference