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"state of decomposition" is correct and commonly used in written English.
It refers to the level or degree of decay or breakdown of something. Example: The forensic team examined the body and determined its state of decomposition to be at an advanced stage, making it difficult to determine the cause of death.
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But upstairs the smell was overwhelming - the bodies were in an advanced state of decomposition.
This advice surprises one eminent civilian pathologist, who says that only exhumation could reveal the state of decomposition.
"We found around 20 bodies in a state of decomposition in an area that we call Panthers' Hill.
It was under this pile of clothes that a body in an advanced state of decomposition was found.
But when the bodies arrived, the lungs were already in a state of decomposition.
Many were in an advanced state of decomposition and were partly devoured by animals, probably jackals, he said.
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Mostly what he brought back was road kill in iffy states of decomposition.
It's also where, in 2002, more than 300 bodies were found in various states of decomposition near a crematory.
In a sign of the intensity of the fighting this week in the capital, 40 bodies, many in advanced states of decomposition, were piled up in an abandoned hospital in the Abu Salim neighborhood, until Friday the preserve of the Qaddafi forces.
Mr Davies said: "They were young horses in various states of decomposition.
In response to the images of piled corpses released to the public, Picasso paints Charnel House, his internalization of a pile of cadavers in various states of decomposition.
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