直ちょく接せつ死し

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.

• 地じ震しんによる直ちょく接せつ死しは建たて物ものの倒とう壊かいが主おもな原げん因いんだ。

  Direct deaths from the earthquake are mainly caused by building collapses.

• この統とう計けいでは、事じ故この直ちょく接せつ死しとその後ごの合がっ併ぺい症しょうによる死し亡ぼうを区く別べつしている。

  In these statistics, they distinguish between direct deaths from the accident and deaths from subsequent complications.