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Diplopia. Diplopia. Other names. Double vision. One way a person might experience double vision. Specialty. Neurology, ophthalmology. Diplopia is the simultaneous perception of two images of a single object that may be displaced horizontally or vertically in relation to each other. [ 1] Also called double vision, it is a loss of visual focus ...
A near-death experience ( NDE) is a profound personal experience associated with death or impending death, which researchers describe as having similar characteristics. When positive, which the great majority are, [ 1] such experiences may encompass a variety of sensations including detachment from the body, feelings of levitation, total ...
Post-mortem photography is the practice of photographing the recently deceased. Various cultures use and have used this practice, though the best-studied area of post-mortem photography is that of Europe and America. [ 1] There can be considerable dispute as to whether individual early photographs actually show a dead person or not, often ...
Neurology. Sudden unexpected death in epilepsy ( SUDEP) is a fatal complication of epilepsy. [ 1] It is defined as the sudden and unexpected, non-traumatic and non-drowning death of a person with epilepsy, without a toxicological or anatomical cause of death detected during the post-mortem examination. [ 2][ 3] While the mechanisms underlying ...
Marilyn Monroe is iconic for her blonde curls, red lips, and perfect beauty mark, but the star was shockingly unrecognizable at the time of her death. According to the two morticians, who prepared ...
Terminal lucidity (also known as rallying, terminal rally, the rally, end-of-life-experience, energy surge, the surge, or pre-mortem surge) [ 1] is an unexpected return of consciousness, mental clarity or memory shortly before death in individuals with severe psychiatric or neurological disorders. [ 2][ 3] It has been reported by physicians ...
In medicine, specifically in end-of-life care, palliative sedation (also known as terminal sedation, continuous deep sedation, or sedation for intractable distress of a dying patient) is the palliative practice of relieving distress in a terminally ill person in the last hours or days of a dying person's life, usually by means of a continuous intravenous or subcutaneous infusion of a sedative ...
The stages that follow shortly after death are: Corneal opacity or "clouding". Pallor mortis, paleness which happens in the first 15–120 minutes after death. Livor mortis, or dependent lividity, a settling of the blood in the lower (dependent) portion of the body. Algor mortis, the reduction in body temperature following death.