>Disease terminology you may find on death cert..these were posted >on another list... Thought it was something good to share. >Because there are over 250 lines it will be split into two postings. > >>Ablepsy - Blindness >>Ague - Malarial Fever >>American plague - Yellow fever >>Anasarca - Generalized massive edema >>Aphonia - Laryngitis >>Aphtha - The infant disease "thrush" >>Apoplexy - Paralysis due to stroke >>Asphycsia/Asphicsia - Cyanotic and lack of oxygen >>Atrophy - Wasting away or diminishing in size. >>Bad Blood - Syphilis >>Bilious fever - Typhoid, malaria, hepatitis or elevated >>temperature and bile emesis >>Biliousness - Jaundice associated with liver disease >>Black plague or death - Bubonic plague >>Black fever - Acute infection with high temperature and dark red >>skin >>lesions and high mortality rate >>Black pox - Black Small pox >>Black vomit - Vomiting old black blood due to ulcers or yellow >>fever >>Blackwater fever - Dark urine associated with high temperature >>Bladder in throat - Diphtheria (Seen on death certificates) >>Blood poisoning - Bacterial infection; septicemia >>Bloody flux - Bloody stools >>Bloody sweat - Sweating sickness >>Bone shave - Sciatica >>Brain fever - Meningitis >>Breakbone - Dengue fever >>Bright's disease - Chronic inflammatory disease of kidneys >>Bronze John - Yellow fever >>Bule - Boil, tumor or swelling >>Cachexy - Malnutrition >>Cacogastric - Upset stomach >>Cacospysy - Irregular pulse >>Caduceus - Subject to falling sickness or epilepsy >>Camp fever - Typhus; aka Camp diarrhea >>Canine madness - Rabies, hydrophobia >>Canker - Ulceration of mouth or lips or herpes simplex >>Catalepsy - Seizures / trances >>Catarrhal - Nose and throat discharge from cold or allergy >>Cerebritis - Inflammation of cerebrum or lead poisoning >>Chilblain - Swelling of extremities caused by exposure to cold >>Child bed fever - Infection following birth of a child >>Chin cough - Whooping cough >>Chlorosis - Iron deficiency anemia >>Cholera - Acute severe contagious diarrhea with intestinal lining >> >>sloughing >>Cholera morbus - Characterized by nausea, vomiting, abdominal >>cramps, >>elevated temperature, etc. Could be appendicitis >>Cholecystitus - Inflammation of the gall bladder >>Cholelithiasis - Gall stones >>Chorea - Disease characterized by convulsions, contortions and >>dancing >>Cold plague - Ague which is characterized by chills >>Colic - An abdominal pain and cramping >>Congestive chills - Malaria >>Consumption - Tuberculosis >>Congestion - Any collection of fluid in an organ, like the lungs >>Congestive chills - Malaria with diarrhea >>Congestive fever - Malaria >>Corruption - Infection >>Coryza - A cold >>Costiveness - Constipation >>Cramp colic - Appendicitis >>Crop sickness - Overextended stomach >>Croup - Laryngitis, diphtheria, or strep throat >>Cyanosis - Dark skin color from lack of oxygen in blood >>Cynanche - Diseases of throat >>Cystitis - Inflammation of the bladder >>Day fever - Fever lasting one day; sweating sickness >>Debility - Lack of movement or staying in bed >>Decrepitude - Feebleness due to old age >>Delirium tremens - Hallucinations due to alcoholism >>Dengue - Infectious fever endemic to East Africa >>Dentition - Cutting of teeth >>Deplumation - Tumor of the eyelids which causes hair loss >>Diary fever - A fever that lasts one day >>Diptheria - Contagious disease of the throat >>Distemper - Usually animal disease with malaise, discharge from >>nose and >>throat, anorexia >>Dock fever - Yellow fever >>Dropsy - Edema (swelling), often caused by kidney or heart >>disease >>Dropsy of the Brain - Encephalitis >>Dry Bellyache - Lead poisoning >>Dyscrasy - An abnormal body condition >>Dysentery - Inflammation of colon with frequent passage of mucous >>and >>blood >>Dysorexy - Reduced appetite >>Dyspepsia - Indigestion and heartburn. Heart attack symptoms >>Dysury - Difficulty in urination >>Eclampsy - Symptoms of epilepsy, convulsions during labor >>Ecstasy - A form of catalepsy characterized by loss of reason >>Edema - Nephrosis; swelling of tissues >>Edema of lungs - Congestive heart failure, a form of dropsy >>Eel thing - Erysipelas >>Elephantiasis - A form of leprosy >>Encephalitis - Swelling of brain; aka sleeping sickness >>Enteric fever - Typhoid fever >>Enterocolitis - Inflammation of the intestines >>Enteritis - Inflations of the bowels >>Epitaxis - Nose bleed >>Erysipelas - Contagious skin disease, due to Streptococci with >>vesicular >>and bulbous lesions >>Extravasted blood - Rupture of a blood vessel >>Falling sickness - Epilepsy >>Fatty Liver - Cirrhosis of liver >>Fits - Sudden attack or seizure of muscle activity >>Flux - An excessive flow or discharge of fluid like hemorrhage or >> >>diarrhea >>Flux of humour - Circulation >>French pox - Syphilis >>Gathering - A collection of pus >>Glandular fever - Mononucleosis >>Great pox - Syphilis >>Green fever / sickness - Anemia >>Grippe/grip - Influenza like symptoms >>Grocer's itch - Skin disease caused by mites in sugar or flour >>Heart sickness - Condition caused by loss of salt from body >>Heat stroke - Body temperature elevates because of surrounding >>environment temperature and body does not perspire to reduce >>temperature. >> Coma and death result if not reversed >>Hectical complaint - Recurrent fever >>Hematemesis - Vomiting blood >>Hematuria - Bloody urine >>Hemiplegy - Paralysis of one side of body >>Hip gout - Osteomylitis >>Horrors - Delirium tremens >>Hydrocephalus - Enlarged head, water on the brain >>Hydropericardium - Heart dropsy >>Hydrophobia - Rabies >>Hydrothroax - Dropsy in chest >>Hypertrophic - Enlargement of organ, like the heart >>Impetigo - Contagious skin disease characterized by pustules >>Inanition - Physical condition resulting from lack of food >>Infantile paralysis - Polio >>Intestinal colic - Abdominal pain due to improper diet >>Jail fever - Typhus >>Jaundice - Condition caused by blockage of intestines >> >> >> >