nonfatal

Thân thiện

A patient recovers from a nonfatal heart attack in the hospital.

Definition

1. Adjective:
   • Not causing death; not resulting in a fatality: Describes an event, injury, or illness that, while potentially serious, does not lead to the death of the person or organism involved.

Usage

• The adjective nonfatal is used to qualify nouns related to negative events, typically medical conditions, accidents, or attacks, to specify that they did not have a lethal outcome.
• It is often used in medical, legal, and news reporting contexts to distinguish between outcomes.
• It typically precedes the noun it modifies (e.g., , ).

Examples

• The patient survived a nonfatal overdose.
• Statistics show a rise in nonfatal workplace accidents this quarter.
• She was the victim of a nonfatal shooting.
• The study focused on the long-term effects of nonfatal strokes.

Advanced Usage

• In Epidemiological Contexts: Used to categorize health events for statistical analysis, often contrasted with "fatal."
  • The report separates fatal and nonfatal cases of the disease.
• In Legal/Insurance Contexts: Used to describe the severity of incidents.
  • The policy covers both fatal and nonfatal critical illnesses.

Variants and Related Words

• Fatality (n): An occurrence of death caused by an accident, disaster, or illness.
  • The crash resulted in multiple fatalities.
• Fatal (adj): Causing death.
  • He suffered a fatal heart attack. (This is the direct antonym of nonfatal).

Synonyms

• Non-lethal: Not sufficient to cause death.
• Survivable: Capable of being survived. (Note: This emphasizes the potential for survival rather than the fact that death did not occur.)

Antonyms

• Fatal: Resulting in death.
• Lethal: Sufficient to cause death.
• Deadly: Likely to cause death.

Học thuật

Adjective

1. not bringing death
   • nonfatal heart attack