Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End Glossary

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Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End Glossary

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Hospice

Lodging for travelers

Perpetrators

Those who indulge in immoral acts or criminal activities

Demarcation

Distinction, separation

Caricature

Travesty, parody

Enunciated

Vocalized

Cirrhosis

A type of liver condition which leaves permanent damage

Befuddled

Perplexed, confused

Spasmodical

Excitable

Surreptitiously

In a secretive way

Distrait

Preoccupied, distracted

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Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End study guide contains a biography of Atul Gawande, literature essays, quiz questions, major themes, characters, and a full summary and analysis.

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