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under the VEA;
         (c)          hazardous service under the VEA;
         (d)          British nuclear test defence service under the VEA;
         (e)          warlike service under the MRCA; or
         (f)           non-warlike service under the MRCA.
Note: MRCA and VEA are also defined in the Schedule 1 - Dictionary.
                                  terminal event means the proximate or ultimate cause of death and includes the following:
         (a)           pneumonia;
         (b)           respiratory failure;
         (c)           cardiac arrest;
         (d)           circulatory failure; or
         (e)           cessation of brain function.
                               thrombolytic therapy means therapeutic administration of a pharmacological agent which breaks up or dissolves blood clots (such as streptokinase or tissue plasminogen activator).
                                  VEA means the Veterans' Entitlements Act 1986.
                               wet macular degeneration means choroidal neovascularisation and retinal angiomatous proliferation.  It is also known as neovascular or exudative macular degeneration.  Complications include subretinal haemorrhage.