American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language (5th Edition, 2016) defines 'euthanasia' as: "The act or practice of ending the life of a person or animal having a terminal illness or a medical condition that causes suffering perceived as incompatible with an acceptable quality of life, as by lethal injection or the suspension of certain medical treatments."
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Cambridge English Corpus defines 'euthanasia' as: "There may be many intentions present in a single action, and in complex actions such as euthanasia and lethal palliation there typically are."
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McGraw-Hill Concise Dictionary of Modern Medicine (2002) defines 'euthanasia' as: "The induction of death, or painlessly putting to death, a patient suffering from an incurable disease; deliberate administration of medications–eg narcotics or barbiturates to an terminally ill patient at the patient's own request, to end his/her life."
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Jonas: Mosby's Dictionary of Complementary and Alternative Medicine (2005) defines 'euthanasia' as: "The act of facilitating death in a terminally ill patient, whether by deliberate activity, such as the administration of drugs that hasten death (known as active euthanasia), or passive, as in the withholding of life-extending treatment (passive euthanasia)."
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Saunders Comprehensive Veterinary Dictionary (3rd Edition, 2007) defines 'euthanasia' as: "1. an easy or painless death. 2. the deliberate ending of life of an animal suffering from an incurable disease; called also mercy killing, to put down, to put to sleep."
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B. 错