noun
direct death; death directly caused by an accident, disease, etc.
Used in medical, legal, or disaster contexts to distinguish deaths directly attributable to a specific cause from indirect or secondary deaths.
地震による直接死は建物の倒壊が主な原因だ。
Direct deaths from the earthquake are mainly caused by building collapses.
この統計では、事故の直接死とその後の
In these statistics, they distinguish between direct deaths from the accident and deaths from subsequent complications.
Compound of 直接 (direct) and 死 (death). The exact historical derivation is uncertain, but the term follows standard Sino-Japanese word formation patterns.