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What does agonal mean?

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Adjective
  1. Of or pertaining to the pain of death
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In addition to better understanding, agonal dialogue adds the dimension of possible retribution and rectification of grievances.
To the three main modalities mentioned so far one may wish to add as a fourth category that of agonal dialogue or contestation.
There are prominent examples of such an agonal hermeneutics in our time.
This is why I prefer to list the agonal case as a sub-category within ethical-hermeneutical dialogue.
In small mammals, intussusception may be caused by enteritis, prokinetic drugs, or exercise, or it may be an agonal event.
She was entering what is called the agonal phase — taken from the Greek agon, which means struggle — a period that precedes death and can last from a few minutes to hours.

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