Terminal illness

Präfinalität (Latin prae 'before' and finis 'end' ) refers to states or processes that occur or will expire shortly before the death during the dying phase. The corresponding adjective is präfinal, an elderly German equivalent is doomed. Sometimes the adjectives moribund or terminally (Latin moribund or finally ) be used quasi- synonyms.

Due to the layman not readily by looking etymology of the term could be him too close to classify euphemisms (such as the obesity). It is also used as a typical " Tarnbegriff " with which medical staff can talk about medical issues before relatives or patients without revealing these same the entire scope of the situation.

Thus one speaks in the medical context, for example by präfinaler cachexia (wasting ), a prefinal impression that patients admitted to hospital, make etc.