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critically ill or injured
The state of experiencing or being at risk for a life-threatening condition, such as cancer,
heart attack
or
stroke
. Critically ill or injured patients who are not
medically treated
are likely to die.
Keywords
danger, life, threat, threatening, die, death
Last modified at 9/8/2009 9:01 AM by Committee
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