Abasia
|
Loss or impairment of the power of walking. [Appleton1904]
|
Ablepsy / Ablepsia
|
Blindness. Also an old synonym of apolepsia and epilepsy. [Appleton1904]
|
Abortion
|
The expulsion of the foetus before the seventh month of utero-gestation,
or before it is viable. [Dunglison1868]
|
Abortion, Spontaneous
|
Abortion occurring naturally; popularly known as miscarriage. [Dorland]
|
Abortus
|
A miscarriage.
|
Abrachia |
A sort of monstrosity, consisting in the
absence of arms. [Thomas1875] |
Abscess
|
Apostema. An
imposthume, gathering, or boil; a collection of pus formed or
deposited in some tissue or organ. [Hoblyn1855]
A collection of pus
in a cavity, the result of a morbid process. [Dunglison1868].
A collection of pus or purulent matter in any
tissue or organ of the body, the result of a morbid process. [Webster1913].
Example
from an 1898 Cemetery record
from Maine:

|
Cerebral
Abscess
|
Encephalopyosis:
suppuration of the brain. When accompanied with emaciation and
hectic, it is called Encephalophthisis. [Dunglison1868].
Example from a 1925 death certificate
from New Brunswick, Canada:

|
Cold
Abscess
|
An abscess of slow formation, unattended with
the pain and heat characteristic of ordinary abscesses, and lasting
for years without exhibiting any tendency towards healing; a chronic
abscess. [Webster1913].
|
Ethmoidal Abscess
|
Abscess. Of, relating to, or being a light spongy bone located between
the orbits, forming part of the walls and septum of the superior
nasal cavity, and containing numerous perforations for the passage
of the fibers of the olfactory nerves. [Heritage]
|
Lumbar Abscess
|
Psoas Abscess.
Example from an 1886 death certificate
from Illinois:
 |
Metastatic Abscess
|
A secondary cancerous growth formed by transmission of cancerous
cells from a primary growth located elsewhere in the body. [Heritage]
|
Psoas
Abscess
|
Another name for
lumbar abscess, the femero-coxalgie of Chaussier. [Hoblyn1855]
A wandering abscess
which, originating from carious vertebra, has followed the
course of the psoas muscles and points in the groin or at the
sacroischiadic foramen. Occasionally the term is applied also to
abscess of the psoas muscle (more properly called psoitis).
[Appleton1904].
Example from a 1906 Death
Certificate from Brooklyn, N.Y.:

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Running Abscess
|
A chronic abscess.
Example from an 1891 death certificate
from New Brunswick, Canada:
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Subphrenic Abscess
|
An abscess beneath
the diaphragm. [Dorland].
Subphrenic: situated
or occurring bellow the diaphram. [Merriam-Webster].
Example from a 1929 Death
Certificate from England:

|
Acephalia |
A form of ftal monstrosity, consisting
in the want of the head. [Thomas1875] |
Acholia
|
Absence of bile, arrest of the functions of the liver so that matters
from which bile is formed accumulate in the blood producing toxemia.
[Wilson1893]
|
Achor |
A small acuminated pustule, which contains
a straw colored matter, and is succeeded by a thin brown
yellowish scab. [Hoblyn1855] A small pustule containing a straw colored
fluid, and forming scaly eruptions about the head of young
children; a species of scald-head. [Thomas1875] |
Acidosis
|
An abnormal increase in the acidity of the
body's fluids, caused either by accumulation of acids or by
depletion of bicarbonates. [American Heritage].
An abnormal condition of reduced
alkalinity of the blood and tissues that is marked by sickly
sweet breath, headache, nausea and vomiting, and visual
disturbances and is usually a result of excessive acid
production. [Merriam Webster].
Example from a 1922 Death
Certificate from Georgia:

|
Acne
|
A small pimple or tubercle on the face. [Dunglison1868]
|
Acne Rosacea
|
Rosacea
|
Acrania |
A species of defective development
consisting in partial or total absence of the cranium.
[Thomas1875] |
Addison's Disease
|
A morbid condition causing a peculiar brownish
discoloration of the skin, and thought, at one time, to be due to
disease of the suprarenal capsules (two flat triangular bodies covering
the upper part of the kidneys), but now known not to be dependent
upon this causes exclusively. It is usually fatal. [Webster1913].
A disease caused by partial or total failure
of adrenocortical function, which is characterized by a bronze like
pigmentation of the skin and mucous membranes, anemia, weakness,
and low blood pressure. [Heritage].
The U.S. President J.F. Kennedy is said to
have had Addison disease. Named after the British physician Thomas
Addison (1793-1860).When Addison first identified adrenal insufficiency
in 1849, tuberculosis (TB) was responsible for 70-90% of cases.
As the treatment for TB improved, the incidence of adrenal insufficiency
due to TB of the adrenal glands greatly decreased. TB now accounts
for around 20% of cases of primary adrenal insufficiency in developed
countries. [Medicinenet]
|
Addle
|
Abscess
|
Aden Fever
|
Dengue
|
Aden Ulcer
|
Beriberi
|
Adenitis
|
Inflammation of a gland.
|
Adenoma
|
A tumor having a glandular structure. [Appleton1904]
|
Adenomegaly
|
Enlargement of a gland.
|
Adenomeningeal Fever
|
Fever, accompanied with considerable mucous secretion; especially
from the digestive tube; Febris Adenomeningea. [Dunglison1868]
|
Adenopathy
|
Enlargement of a lymph node.
|
Adiposis
|
Excessive
accumulation of fat in the body. Also called lipomatosis,
liposis. [American Heritage].
Entry from
an 1857 Church Record in Münster, Switzerland
 |
Adiposis Dolorosa
|
A condition of generalized obesity
characterized by pain in the abnormal deposits of fat. [Merriam
Webster]. |
Adust
|
Having much heat in the constitution and little
serum in the blood. [Obs.] Hence: Atrabilious; sallow; gloomy. [Webster1913]
|
Adynamia
|
Loss of strength or vigor, usually because of disease. [Heritage]
|
Affection
|
Any existing disorder of the whole body, or part of it: as hysterics,
leprosy, etc. Thus, by adding a descriptive epithet to the term
affection, most distempers may be expressed. And hence we say febrile
affection, cutaneous affection, etc., using the word affection synonymously
with disease. [Hooper1843]
|
African Cachexia
|
A disease observed in
negroes, perhaps identical with miners' Anemia. [Appleton1904] |
African Fever
|
The malignant bilious remittent fever, which prevails on the western
coast of Africa. Febris Africana. [Dunglison1868].
An intermittent, remittent, or pernicious malarial
fever occurring on the African coast. [Appleton1904]
|
African
Sleeping Sickness
|
African Trypanosomiasis
|
African Trypanosomiasis
|
An
often fatal, endemic infectious disease of humans and animals in
tropical Africa, caused by either of two trypanosomes (Trypanosoma
rhodesiense or T. gambiense) transmitted by the tsetse
fly and characterized by fever, severe headache, and lymph node
swelling in the early stages, followed by extreme weakness, sleepiness,
and deep coma. Also called African sleeping sickness. [Heritage]
Fact sheet from CDC
|
Aglutition
|
Difficulty in
swallowing or inability to swallow. Also called
dysphagia,
aphagia, odynophagia.
[American Heritage].
|
Agony
|
The last struggle of
life against death. The series of phenomena which usually
precede death, and which result from the gradual and successive
abolition of functions. [Hoblyn1855]
The last struggle of life, closing in
death. [Thomas1875]
Severe pain or extreme suffering. Old term for the period just before
death occurs, this was thought to be a time of extreme pain. [Dorland]
|
Agranulocytosis
|
A marked decrease in the number of
granulocytes. Granulocytes are a type of white blood cell filled
with microscopic granules that are little sacs containing
enzymes that digest microorganisms. Granulocytes are part of the
innate, somewhat non specific infection-fighting immune system.
They do not respond exclusively to specific antigens, as do
B-cells and T-cells. Agranulocytosis results in a syndrome of
frequent chronic bacterial infections of the skin, lungs,
throat, etc. Although "agranulocytosis" literally means no
granulocytes, there may, in fact, be some granulocytes but too
few of them, i.e. granulocytopenia. Agranulocytosis can be
genetic and inherited or it can be acquired as, for example, an
aspect of leukemia.
Example from a 1959 Funeral Home
Record:
 |
Agrom
|
A disease of the tongue, peculiar to the Indians, in which it becomes
extremely rough and chopped. [Hooper1822]
An East Indian name for a disease which occurred
in Bengal and other parts of India, characterized by roughening
and fissuring of the tongue, and sometimes by the development of
white spots upon it. [Appleton1904]
|
Ague
|
Intermittent fever.
This term appears to be derived from a Gothic word denoting
trembling or shuddering. [Hoblyn1855]
Intermittent fever; often used in the same sense as chill or rigor.
[Dunglison1874]
An intermittent
fever, attended by alternate cold and hot fits. The interval of
the paroxysms has given rise to the following varieties of ague:
an interval of 24 hours constitutes a quotidian ague; of 48
hours, a tertian; of 72 hours, a quartan; of 96 hours, a
quintan. [Hoblyn1900]
Malarial or
intermittent fever; characterized by paroxysms consisting of
chill, fever, and sweating, at regularly recurring times, and
followed by an interval or intermission the length of which
determines the epithets quotidian, tertian, etc. Synonyms: fever
and ague; intermittent fever; periodic fever; malarial fever;
marsh fever; paludal fever; miasmatic fever. [Gould1910].
Febris
intermittans. A febrile condition in which there are alternating
periods of chills, fever, and sweating. Used chiefly in reference
to the fevers associated with malaria. Archaic term for
Malarial Fever. [Dorland]
"Aigue"
entered English usage in the 14th century, having crossed the channel
from the Middle French "aguë". The word share the same origin as
"acute." It descends from the Latin "acutus" meaning "sharp or pointed".
A "fievre aigue" in French was a sharp or pointed (or acute) fever.
[Medicinenet]
Example
from a 1790
Death Record from England:

|
Ague and Fever
|
Intermittent Fever. [Dunglison1874].
A form of fever recurring in paroxysms which
are preceded by chills. It is of malarial origin. [Webster]
|
Ague Cake
|
The popular name for a hard tumor, most probably
the spleen on the left side of the belly, lower than the false ribs
in the region of the spleen, said to be the effect of intermittent
fevers. However frequent it might have been formerly, it is now
very rare, and although then said to be owing to the use of bark,
it is now less frequent since the bark has been generally employed.
[Hooper1829].
Enlargement of the
spleen, induced by ague, and presenting the appearance of a
solid mass or cake. [Hoblyn1900]
An enlargement of the spleen produced by ague.
A popular term for a hard tumor on the left side of the body. [CancerWEB]
|
Ague
Fit
|
The paroxysm of ague.
|
Brow Ague
|
Rheumatic pain, felt
generally just above the eyebrow. [Hoblyn1855]
Neuralgia of the brow of an intermittent character,
supposed to be due to malaria. [Appleton1904]
|
Covent Garden Ague
|
Venereal disease: The
Ladybird disease. He broke his shins against Covent Garden
rails, he caught the disease. [Grose1823].
Covent, or Convent
Garden, vulgarly called Common Garden. Anciently, the garden
belonging to a dissolved monastery; now famous for being the
chief market in London for fruit, flowers, and herbs. The
theatres are situated near it. In its environs are many
brothels, and, not long ago, the lodgings of the second order of
ladies of easy virtue were either there, or in the purieus of
Drury lane.
|
Chronic Ague
|
Chronic
Malarial Fever
|
Dumb Ague
|
A form of intermittent fever which has no well-defined ``chill.''
[Webster]
|
Face Ague
|
Tic douloureux. A
form of neuralgia, which occurs in the nerves of the face.
[Hoblyn1855]
|
Irish Ague
|
Typhus
|
Leaping Ague
|
This disease is said by the Scotch writers
to be characterized by increased efficiency, but depraved direction,
of the will, producing an irresistible propensity to dance, tumble,
and move about in a fantastic manner, and often with far more than
the natural vigor, activity, and precision. See dancing Mania. [Dunglison1855]
|
Spotted
Ague
|
Epidemic
Typhus
|
Alastrim
|
Variola Minor
|
Albara
|
The White
Leprosy
|
Albumin Poisoning
|
Albumin is synthesized in the liver. Low serum levels occur in protein
malnutrition, active inflammation and serious hepatic and renal
disease. Nephritis. [CancerWEB]
|
Albuminosis
|
A condition of the blood, in which the ratio of albumen is increased,
as in abdominal typhus, variola, rubeola, etc. [Dunglison1874]
|
Albuminuria
|
A condition of the urine in which it contains albumen, the presence
of which is indicated by its coagulation on the application of adequate
heat, nitric acid, etc. The term has been applied also to diseases
characterized by such a condition of urine. Bright's disease of
the Kidney. [Dunglison1874].
Example
from an 1880 Physician's Report from Pennsylvania:

|
Aleppo Boil
|
Cutaneous
Leishmaniasis. Also
called: Aleppo Button, Aleppo Evil. [Appleton1904]
|
Allergy
|
An
abnormally high sensitivity to certain substances, such as pollens,
foods, or microorganisms. Common indications of allergy may include
sneezing, itching, and skin rashes. [Heritage]
|
Algid Pernicious Fever
|
A pernicious malarial
paroxysm marked by symptoms of collapsecold and cyanotic
extremities, livid nails, clammy skin, pinched face, and thready
pulse. [Stedman 1918].
|
Alzheimer's Disease
|
A progressive form of presenile dementia that is similar to senile
dementia except that it usually starts in the 40s or 50s; first
symptoms are impaired memory which is followed by impaired thought
and speech and finally complete helplessness. [Wordnet]
|
Amaas
|
Variola Minor
|
Amaurosis
|
A term for " deprivation of sight," limited chiefly to those forms
of defect or loss of vision which are caused by diseases not directly
involving the eye. [Britannica1911].
Total loss of vision, especially when occurring without pathological
changes to the eye. [Heritage]
|
Amblosis
|
Miscarriage
|
Ambustio Onis
|
Scalds and Burns
|
Amebiasis
|
Infection with any of various amebae. It is
an asymptomatic carrier state in most individuals, but diseases
ranging from chronic, mild diarrhoea to fulminant dysentery may
occur. [CancerWEB]
Information sheet from NYS Dept
of Health
|
Amelia
|
Congenital absence of an arm or leg. [Wordnet]
|
Amentia
|
Mental retardation.
|
American
Trypanosomiasis
|
Chagas disease is
caused by a parasite. It is common in Latin America but not in
the United States. Infected blood-sucking bugs, sometimes called
kissing bugs, spread it. When an infected bug bites you, usually
on your face, it leaves behind infected waste. You can get the
infection if you rub it in your eyes or nose, the bite wound or
a cut. The disease can also spread through contaminated food, a
blood transfusion, a donated organ or from mother to baby during
pregnancy. Also called: Chagas Disease, South American
trypanosomiasis. [MedlinePlus].
Fact sheet from CDC |
Amnesia
|
Partial or total loss of memory, usually resulting from shock, psychological
disturbance, brain injury, or illness. [Heritage]
|
Anaematosis
|
Defective hematosis or preparation of the blood. Anemia. [Dunglison1874]
|
Anasarca
|
The anasarca generally begins with a swelling
of the feet and ankles towards night, which for some time, disappears
in the morning. In the evening the parts, if pressed with the finger,
will pit. The swelling gradually ascends, and occupies the trunk
of the body, the arms, and the head. Afterwards the breathing becomes
difficult, the urine is in small quantity, and the thirst great;
the body is bound, and the perspiration is greatly obstructed. To
these succeed torpor, heaviness, a slow wasting fever, and a troublesome
cough. This last is generally a fatal symptom, as it shows that
the lungs are affected. [Buchan1785].
Dropsy of the subcutaneous cellular tissue;
an effusion of serum into the cellular substance, occasioning a
soft, pale, inelastic swelling of the skin. [Webster1913].
An accumulation of serous fluid in various
tissues and cavities of the body. [Heritage].
Example from an 1867 Death
Record from Scotland:

|
Anchylosis / Ankylosis
|
Stiffness or fixation of a joint; formation of a stiff joint. [Webster1913]
|
Ancome
|
A small ulcerous swelling, coming suddenly; also, a whitlow [Webster]
|
Anemia
/
Anĉmia
|
The condition of having less than the normal number of red blood
cells or less than the normal quantity of hemoglobin in the blood.
[Medicinenet]
Fact sheet from CDC
|
Aplastic Anemia
|
Any of a diverse
group of anemias characterized by bone marrow failure with
reduction of hematopoietic cells and their replacement by fat,
resulting in pancytopenia, often accompanied by granulocytopenia
and thrombocytopenia. It may be hereditary; it may be secondary
to causes such as toxic, radiant, or immunologic injury to bone
marrow stem cells or their microenvironment; it may be
associated with various diseases; or it may be idiopathic.
[Dorland]
Example
from a 1943 Death
Certificate from Ohio:

|
Malignant Anemia
|
Pernicious Anemia
|
Pernicious Anemia
|
A severe form of
anemia most often affecting older adults, caused by failure of
the stomach to absorb vitamin B12 and characterized by
abnormally large red blood cells, gastrointestinal disturbances,
and lesions of the spinal cord. Also called Addison's anemia,
malignant anemia. [Stedman]
A chronic progressive anemia of older adults; thought to result
from a lack of intrinsic factor (a substance secreted by the stomach
that is responsible for the absorption of vitamin B-12). [Wordnet].
Example from a 1919 Death
Certificate from Georgia:

|
Splenic Anemia
|
Banti's Syndrome
|
Malignant Anemia
|
Pernicious Anemia
|
Anencephaly /
Anencephalic
|
Congenital absence of most of the brain and spinal cord. [Heritage].
Example from a 1927 death certificate
from New Brunswick, Canada:

|
Aneurism / Aneurysm
|
A localized, pathological, blood-filled dilatation of a blood vessel
caused by a disease or weakening of the vessel's wall. [Heritage]
|
Angina
|
Sense of suffocation;
applied to diseases in which this is a prominent symptom; also
to various affections of the throat. [Hoblyn1855]
Any inflammatory affection of the throat or faces, as the quinsy,
malignant sore throat, croup, etc., especially such as tends to
produce suffocation, choking, or shortness of breath. [Dorland]
Example from an 1864 Church Record
from Slovakia:

|
Angina Diphtheritica
|
An obsolete term for diphtheria involving the pharynx or larynx.
[CancerWEB]
|
Angina Maligna
|
Malignant sore
throat. [Hoblyn1855]
Diphtheria
|
Angina Parotidĉa
|
The
Mumps.
Cynanche Parotidĉa. [Dunglison 1874].
Example
from an 1843 Münster, Switzerland Church Death Record:

|
Angina Scarlatinosa
|
An obsolete term for sore throat of scarlet fever. [CancerWEB]
|
Angina Simplex
|
An acute inflammation of the mucous membrane of the pharynx, and
sometimes of the entire pharyngeal structure. [Thomas1907]
|
Angina
Suffocativa
|
The Croup
|
Angina Tonsillaris
|
Sore throat.
[Hoblyn1855]
Quincy
|
Angina Trachealis
|
Tracheitis; croup, or
inflammation of the Traches. [Hoblyn1855]
The
Croup
|
Hogskin Angina
|
Diphtheria
|
Anile
|
Of or like a feeble old woman. [Wordnet]
|
Animal Disease
|
A disease that typically does not affect human beings. [Wordnet]
|
Anoxemia
|
An abnormal condition due to deficient aeration of the blood, as
in balloon sickness, mountain sickness. [Webster1913]
|
Antiades
|
The
Mumps
|
Aortitis
|
Inflammation of the Aorta.
|
Aphonia
|
Inability to produce speech sounds. Often due to a disease of the
voice producing structures. Laryngitis. [CancerWEB]
|
Aphtha (Aphthae)
|
Small whitish ulcers
appearing in the mouth. [Buchan1798]
The thrush, sprue; a
form of sore mouth occurring mostly in infants, characterized by
whitish patches, which may become confluent and give rise to
ulceration, and occasionally extend into the sophagus,
consisting of epithelial scales together with the spores, and
filaments of a vegetable organism, the Oidium albicans.
[Appleton1904]
Roundish pearl-colored specks or flakes in
the mouth, on the lips, etc., terminating in white sloughs. They
are commonly characteristic of
thrush. [Webster].
Example from an 1885 death certificate
from Illinois:

|
Aphthous
|
Pertaining to,
resembling, or affected with aphtha.. [Appleton1904]
Pertaining to, or
caused by, aphth[ae]; characterized by apht[ae]; as, aphthous
ulcers; aphthous fever. [Webster].
Example
from an 1852 Pennsylvania
Physicians' Return of Death:

|
Apnea
|
Temporary absence or
cessation of breathing. [Heritage].
Example
from an 1885 death
certificate from Canada:

|
Aposteme
|
An abscess; a swelling filled with purulent matter. [Written corruptly
{imposthume}. [Webster1913]
|
Appendicitis
|
Inflammation of the vermiform appendix. [Dorland].
Example from a 1921 Death
Certificate from Georgia:

|
Arachnitis
|
Arachnoiditis. Inflammation of the Arachnoid. A variety of Phrenitis.
[Dunglison1874]
|
Arthritis
|
Is a group of conditions that affect the health
of the bone joints in the body. Arthritic diseases include rheumatoid
and psoriatic arthritis, which are autoimmune diseases; septic arthritis,
caused by joint infection; and the more common osteoarthritis, or
degenerative joint disease. Unlike the autoimmune diseases, osteoarthritis
largely affects older people and results from the degeneration of
joint cartilage. Arthritis may also be caused by gout. [Wikipedia].
"arthritis" was first used: 1543. [Webster]
-
Fact sheet from CDC
-
Information sheet from NYS
Dept of Health
|
Arthritis
Deformans
|
A chronic arthritis
marked by deformation of affected joints. [Merriam Webster].
Rheumatoid Arthritis.
[Random House].
Example from a 1929 death certificate
from New Brunswick, Canada:

|
Rheumatoid Arthritis
|
Rheumatoid Arthritis.
A chronic autoimmune disease characterized by inflammation of
the joints, frequently accompanied by marked deformities, and
ordinarily associated with manifestations of a general, or
systemic, affliction. [Random House].
A chronic disease marked by stiffness and inflammation of the joints,
weakness, loss of mobility, and deformity. [Heritage].
Example from a 1926 death certificate
from New Brunswick, Canada:

|
Ascarides
|
Ascaris
|
Ascaris
|
A genus of intestinal worms, characterized by a long, cylindrical
body, extenuated at the extremities, and having a mouth furnished
with three tubercles, from which a very short tube is sometimes
seen issuing. [Dunglison1874]
Fact sheet from CDC
|
Ascaris Lumbricoides
|
Intestinal parasite of humans and pigs; Roundworm. [Wordnet]
|
Ascites
|
A collection of serous fluid in the abdomen. Ascites proper is dropsy
of the peritoneum; and is characterized by increased size of the
abdomen, by fluctuation, and general signs of dropsy. It is rarely
a primary disease; but is always dangerous. Dropsy of the lower
belly. [Dunglison1874].
Example from an 1828 death certificate
from Pennsylvania:

|
Asphyxia
|
The extreme condition
caused by lack of oxygen and excess of carbon dioxide in the
blood, produced by interference with respiration or insufficient
oxygen in the air; suffocation. [Dictionary.com].
A condition in which
an extreme decrease in the concentration of oxygen in the body
accompanied by an increase in the concentration of carbon
dioxide leads to loss of consciousness or death. Asphyxia can be
induced by choking, drowning, electric shock, injury, or the
inhalation of toxic gases. [American Heritage].
Example from a 1922 Death
Certificate from Georgia:

|
Asphyxia Pallida
|
Globus Pallidus -
The inner and lighter gray portion of the lentiform nucleus of
the brain. Also called pallidum. [Merriam-Webster].
Example from a 1924 death certificate from
Georgia:

|
Assam Fever
|
Visceral
Leishmaniasis
|
Asthenia
|
Want or loss of strength; debility; diminution of the vital
forces. [Webster 1913].
Lack or loss of
strength; weakness. [Dictionary.com].
|
Asthma
|
A disease, characterized by difficulty of breathing
(due to a spasmodic contraction of the bronchi), recurring at intervals,
accompanied with a wheezing sound, a sense of constriction in the
chest, a cough, and expectoration. [Webster1913].
A chronic respiratory disease, often arising
from allergies, that is characterized by sudden recurring attacks
of labored breathing, chest constriction, and coughing. [Heritage].
"asthma" was first used: 14th century. [Webster]
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Fact sheet from CDC
-
Information sheet from NYS
Dept of Health
Example
from a 1734
Death Record from England:

Example from an 1826 death certificate
from Pennsylvania:

Example
from a Mecklenburg, Germany Church Death Record:
 |
Bronchial Asthma
|
Respiratory disorder characterized by wheezing;
usually of allergic origin [syn: asthma, asthma attack]. [Wordnet].
Example from a 1922 Death
Certificate from Georgia:

|
Marine Asthma
|
Beri Beri.
[Appleton1904]. |
Asthma Thymicum
|
A disease of infants,
characterized by suspension of respiration at intervals; great
difficulty of breathing, with crowing inspiration, especially on
waking, swallowing, or crying; ending often in a fit of
suffocation, with convulsions. These symptoms are often
accompanied by rigidity of the fingers and toes; the thumb being
frequently drawn forcibly into the palm of the clenched hand,
whence the name Carpopedal spasm, applied to the disease.
[Dunglison 1874].
Example
from an 1854 Münster, Switzerland Church Death Record:
 |
Ataxia
|
Ataxie. Disorder, Irregularity. Ataxia, now, usually means the state
of disorder that characterizes nervous fevers, and the nervous condition.
[Dunglison1874]
|
Ataxic Fever
|
Malignant
Typhus fever.
Ataxic: lacking motor coordination; marked
or caused by ataxia. [Wordnet]
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Atelectasis
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Total or partial collapse of the lung.
also, a congenital condition characterized by the incomplete
expansion of the lungs at birth. [American Heritage].
Collapse of an expanded lung (especially in
infants); also failure of pulmonary alveoli to expand at
birth. [Wordnet].
Example from a 1921 Death
Certificate from Georgia:

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Atheroma
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Any morbid deposit resembling the contents
of a wen. It is often applied to atheromatous degeneration of an
artery. [Appleton1904]. (a) An
encysted tumor containing curdy matter. (b) A disease
characterized by thickening and fatty degeneration of the inner
coat of the arteries. [Webster1913].
A deposit or degenerative accumulation
of lipid-containing plaques on the innermost layer of the wall
of an artery. [Heritage] |
Athetosis
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A variety of
chorea, marked by
peculiar tremors of the fingers and toes. [Webster]
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Athrepsia
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Profound debility of children
due to lack of food and to unhygienic surroundings. [Webster].
Marasmus. [Merriam
Webster].
Example from a 1922 Death
Certificate from Georgia:

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Atrophy
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Defect of nutrition; wasting or emaciation with loss of
strength, unaccompanied by fever. [Thomas1875]
A wasting or decrease in size of a body organ, tissue, or part owing
to disease, injury, or lack of use;
Marasmus. [Heritage]
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Aura
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A peculiar sensation felt by the patient
immediately preceding an epileptic attack; it may be a
paresthesia in the epigastric region or in the hand or leg
ascending to the head, noises in the ears, flashes of light,
vertigo, etc.; it is called auditory, epigastric, vertiginous,
etc., according to its seat or nature. [Stedman 1918].
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Aurogo
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Icterus
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Autumn / Autumnal Fever
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Autumnal Fever
generally assumes a bilious
aspect. Those of the intermittent kind are much more obstinate
than when they appear in the spring. [Dunglison1868].
A fever that
prevails largely in autumn, such as typhoid, typhomalarial, and
malarial fevers. [Appleton1904].
Example from an 1890 death certificate
from New Brunswick, Canada:

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Axes |
Intermittent, Paroxysm. [Dunglison1874].
The ague, generally fits or
attacks. |
Azotemia
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Uremia
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