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The stage right before a person dies is called the agonal phase.

He was able to communicate clearly, but it required an agonal effort, like a dying man's last words.

Must have been a lot of terminal, agonal effort.

Agonal breaths, brain's starving for air; we're running out of time!

Those could have been caused by an agonal struggle."

But there was little need now; the seizures had faded to agonal shudders.

Fall was gone, its last agonal bits of color driven from the naked tree limbs by the rain.

His body began to shake, seized by agonal twitches.

Possibly it was during this agonal biopsy that her blood squirted on the walls.

We sat in shock as the sheriff's agonal jerks and twitches stopped.

And when it was done, when her agonal struggles had ceased, you left us a calling card.

"I realized later they were his agonal breaths.

It's what's called agonal breathing, those last few breaths."

I saw blood and brains everywhere as I trembled like a creature in its agonal stages.

Agonal respiration is not the same as, and is unrelated to, the phenomenon of death rattle.

"Coady's agonal last few years reflect, I think, a profound state of hubris.

As the breathing pattern deteriorates, it merges with agonal respirations.

"And not from the agonal breaths you ascribe to Mr. Case?"

Rather, there are potent physiological reflexes, graphically termed "agonal."

On closer inspection, it was apparent Laurie was in a worsening, desperate state and possibly agonal.

Yes, they were gone now, but he had heard them, just as he had heard that terrible agonal scream.

Which is neither spray nor teardrop, but similar to the kind of spewing pattern I might expect from an agonal breath."

With a scream she fell down past several hex- agonal levels, until she fetched up against another golden tile.

Rabbits with advanced upper airway disease will attempt to breathe through their mouths; this is agonal respiration.

With strong strokes of his powerful arms, he made a di- agonal line to the shore that would intercept the landing of the lead ship.