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It can take years for the illness to develop. In one potential alternate reality, Jean-Luc Picard had this defect and developed the syndrome over a 25-year period. Imminent death syndrome Mr. Show: A terminal disease in which the affected individual may experience death at any given time, usually within 80–100 years. Jelly measles Jelly Jamm
The Hippocratic facies (Latin: facies Hippocratica) [1] is the change produced in the face recognisable as a medical sign known as facies and prognostic of death. It may also be seen as due to long illness , excessive defecation , or excessive hunger , when it can be differentiated from the sign of impending death.
The phrase is derived from the two Latin terms which it is composed of, namely angor and animi.. Angor (different from but related to the word anger in modern English), refers to a great anxiety, [4] distress, [5] or mental anguish [5] often accompanied by a painful constriction and palpitations at the upper abdomen and lower thorax (chest).
The article Betwixt Life and Death: Case Studies of the Cotard Delusion (1996) describes a contemporary case of Cotard's syndrome which occurred in a Scotsman whose brain was damaged in a motorcycle accident: [The patient's] symptoms occurred in the context of more general feelings of unreality and [of] being dead.
A near-death experience (NDE) is a profound personal experience associated with death or impending death, which researchers describe as having similar characteristics.
Impending doom may also be a feature of bipolar disorder, says Hafeez. People who have bipolar disorder experience often extreme changes in mood, energy, and activity levels.
Some troops leave the battlefield injured. Others return from war with mental wounds. Yet many of the 2 million Iraq and Afghanistan veterans suffer from a condition the Defense Department refuses to acknowledge: Moral injury.
Sudden unexplained nocturnal death syndrome may refer to: Brugada syndrome , a genetic disorder in which the electrical activity within the heart is abnormal Sudden arrhythmic death syndrome (SADS), a sudden unexpected death of adolescents and adults, mainly during sleep