exitus

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noun

death

Similar
exitus letalisfatality
Scrabble 13

Meanings

nounexitus (countable and uncountable, plural exituses)

plural exituses

  1. countableuncountablemedicinedeath

    She was brought to the Emergency Room moribund and went on to exitus soon after.

    1944 November, John G. Sinclair, N. D. Schofield, “Anomalies of the cardio-pulmonary circuit compensated without a ductus arteriosus”, in The Anatomical Record, volume 90, number 3, →DOI, page 209

    Synonyms: exitus letalis, fatality

Synonyms & antonyms

noundeath

Similar
exitus letalisfatality

Origin

  1. Latinexitus
  2. Englishexitus

Learned borrowing from Latin exitus. Doublet of ejido and exit.

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APA

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MLA

“exitus.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/exitus. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “exitus,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/exitus.

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