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PATHOLOGY AND GENETICS

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What does “Mortis” mean in Latin?
A
Blood
B
Alive
C
Crime
D
Death
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -mortis. mors Noun = death. mors Noun = death, corpse, annihilation.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Latin noun for “death", mors, genitive mortis, is of feminine gender, but surviving ancient Roman art is not known to depict Death as a woman. Latin poets, however, are bound by the grammatical gender of the word.

Detailed explanation-3: -causa mortis | Wex | US Law | LII / Legal Information Institute.

Detailed explanation-4: -Did you know? Rigor mortis, which translates from Latin as “stiffness of death", sets in quickly and usually ends three or four days after death.

Detailed explanation-5: -Etymology. Learned borrowing from Latin mortem, mors (“death, corpse, annihilation”), from Proto-Italic *mortis, from Proto-Indo-European *mértis (“death”), from *mer-(“to die”).

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