"fail to survive" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is typically used to describe a situation where something or someone is unable to continue existing or functioning. Example: The drought caused many plants to fail to survive, leaving the fields bare and dry.
In AD, the neurons that fail to survive are primarily in the hippocampus, whereas in HD the survival of striatal neurons is most severely impaired and in PD the dopaminergic neurons in the substantia nigra are the most affected.
The absence of this subset of prevalent cases that fail to survive until the sampling date results in a study group biased towards favorable survival; without the employment of proper methods to adjust for left truncation, this can seriously bias the parameter estimate (Keiding, 2005).
Might Stalin's regime fail to survive a sustained conflict with the Germans?
Thus it seems imperative that we develop enhanced powers for our brain, or fail to survive.
The technology revolution creates many new companies that fail to survive.
Acidic water sometimes kills oyster larvae outright, so that they fail to survive past the egg stage.
In this article, I try to explain why organizational innovations either don't occur or fail to survive and proliferate.
The other side of that coin is that the implementation is rarely good; many companies fail to survive.
If the area is down to 20 percent, most people can be saved, though elderly people and infants may fail to survive a 15 percent skin loss.
Many otherwise-promising materials fail to survive constant exposure to the sun, a sine qua non of being a solar cell.
So big data may assign a 95% likelihood that a certain person will shoplift, or default on a loan, or fail to survive a surgical operation.
