The Death Of The Heart

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The novel opens when 16-year-old Portia Quayne moves in to her half-brother Thomas’s London home after her mother’s death leaves her an orphan. Portia is the product of an affair between her mother and her already-married father, but with an unusual twist. After Portia’s mother became pregnant, her father’s wife learned of the affair and insisted her husband “do the right thing” by divorcing her and marrying Portia’s mother instead. He does so, even though British society frowns upon him for this impropriety. Portia spent her childhood traveling with her father and mother across Europe, the three of them living as outcasts from the Quayne family and from genteel society as a whole. A battery can be considered dead after the charge is fully used up. Electrical components are similar in this fashion, in the case that it may not be able to be used again, such as after a spill of water on the components, [139] the component can be considered dead. Masataka, Kosaka (March 2005). "The Showa Era (1926–1989)". Daedalus. 119 (3): 24–27. doi: 10.1162/daed.2005.134.issue-2. ISSN 0011-5266. JSTOR 20025315. Archived from the original on 11 April 2023 . Retrieved 16 February 2023– via JSTOR. Selye, H. (1938). Experimental evidence supporting the conception of "adaptation energy", Am. J. Physiol. 123 (1938), 758–765. Kari Hokkanen. "Kallio, Kyösti (1873–1940) President of Finland". Biografiakeskus, Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura. Archived from the original on 22 February 2014 . Retrieved 10 January 2013.

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EEGs can detect spurious electrical impulses, while certain drugs, hypoglycemia, hypoxia, or hypothermia can suppress or even stop brain activity temporarily; [32] because of this, hospitals have protocols for determining brain death involving EEGs at widely separated intervals under defined conditions. [33] Neocortical brain deathWikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference

Today, where a definition of the moment of death is required, doctors and coroners usually turn to "brain death" or "biological death" to define a person as being dead; [25] people are considered dead when the electrical activity in their brain ceases. [26] It is presumed that an end of electrical activity indicates the end of consciousness. [27] Suspension of consciousness must be permanent and not transient, as occurs during certain sleep stages, and especially a coma. [28] In the case of sleep, Electroencephalogram ( EEGs) are used to tell the difference. [29] As a formal reference to a dead person, it has become common practice to use the participle form of "decease", as in "the deceased"; another noun form is " decedent". Masamoto, Yui; Piraino, Stefano; Miglietta, Maria Pia (1 December 2019). "Transcriptome Characterization of Reverse Development in Turritopsis dohrnii (Hydrozoa, Cnidaria)". G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics. 9 (12): 4127–4138. doi: 10.1534/g3.119.400487. PMC 6893190. PMID 31619459. Arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy (ACM) is an inherited condition that affects the left or right ventricles, or both. It's sometimes called arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy (ARCVM).Bereft of life, the dead person is a "corpse", " cadaver", "body", "set of remains" or, when all flesh is gone, a " skeleton". The terms " carrion" and "carcass" are also used, usually for dead non-human animals. The ashes left after a cremation are lately called "cremains". In dilated cardiomyopathy the muscle walls of the heart become stretched and thin, so they cannot squeeze (contract) properly to pump blood around the body. How serious is it?