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Meanings of spontaneous human combustion in English

Russian
спонтанное самовозгорание человека
Portuguese
combustão humana espontânea
Spanish
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Catalan
combustió humana espontània

Term encompassing reported cases of the combustion of a human body without an apparent external source of ignition.

        Related terms
        спонтанное самовозгорание человека
        Usage of spontaneous human combustion in English
        1
        Masterman, seething and sputtering, seemed on the verge of spontaneous human combustion.
        Warlord: an alex hawke novel
        2
        A rash of spontaneous human combustion in Stevenage, or rabies in Ravensthorpe; could be anything.
        The Rhesus Chart
        3
        The theories advanced by the advocates of spontaneous human combustion are very ingenious and deserve mention here.
        Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
        4
        Every immortal human knew that an uncontrolled aura could completely consume the human body it wrapped around; the process was known as spontaneous human combustion.
        The Sorceress
        5
        "Have you ever heard of spontaneous human combustion?"
        The Magician
        6
        "' Spontaneous human combustion, or catacausis ebriosus,'" began Craig, "'is one of the baffling human scientific mysteries.
        The Silent Bullet