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Title: Death Certificate - help with Cause of Death transcription needed please
Post by: shazzztasstic on Sunday 28 March 10 19:31 BST (UK)
Hi, I wonder if anyone can help me make sense of this? I am trying to decipher the cause of death for my Great great grandfather on the attached death certificate, and I'm afraid I dont understand a word of it! It looks like "Carnivore of Pagliloral Erachaushion"...! anybody with experience and talent for this I would be very grateful for your help ...many thanks


thank you.......is that any clearer?
Title: Re: Death Certificate - help with Cause of Death transcription needed please
Post by: Anni B on Sunday 28 March 10 19:33 BST (UK)
Hi Shazz

Could you try attaching again?
Title: Re: Death Certificate - help with Cause of Death transcription needed please
Post by: Redroger on Sunday 28 March 10 19:33 BST (UK)
Would be grateful if you could post an extract of the relevant part. But from what you say I  suggest the words Cardiac and exhaustion may come into things.
Title: Re: Death Certificate - help with Cause of Death transcription needed please
Post by: avm228 on Sunday 28 March 10 19:34 BST (UK)
Carcinoma of _____________ Exhaustion?

Impossible to tell without seeing it!

ETA: Now seen it, but image is very hard to discern

Might it be Carcinoma of Epiglottis Exhaustion?
Title: Re: Death Certificate - help with Cause of Death transcription needed please
Post by: Redroger on Sunday 28 March 10 19:46 BST (UK)
Having blown up the extract as far as possible while still maintaining legibility I now am sure the last word is exhaustion, but think the first starts with P not C. Could pulmonary come into the reckoning?
Title: Re: Death Certificate - help with Cause of Death transcription needed please
Post by: Lydart on Sunday 28 March 10 19:56 BST (UK)
Could it be re-scanned larger, so that we can see it more clearly please ??   When I tried enlarging it to reading size, it was just too pixelated to read !
Title: Re: Death Certificate - help with Cause of Death transcription needed please
Post by: Redroger on Sunday 28 March 10 20:35 BST (UK)
Carcinoma of pylo----- Exhaustion. Hope someone with medical knowledge can take things on from there.
Title: Re: Death Certificate - help with Cause of Death transcription needed please
Post by: shazzztasstic on Sunday 28 March 10 20:39 BST (UK)
wed definition of carcinoma - any malignant tumor derived from epithelial tissue; one of the four major types of cancer , so the strange word like epiglottis could be epithelial>?
Title: Re: Death Certificate - help with Cause of Death transcription needed please
Post by: Kaz- on Sunday 28 March 10 20:43 BST (UK)
Carcinoma of Pylorus - I think
Title: Re: Death Certificate - help with Cause of Death transcription needed please
Post by: Annie65115 on Sunday 28 March 10 20:47 BST (UK)
My first thought was pylorus too (it's the lowest part of the stomach).
Title: Re: Death Certificate - help with Cause of Death transcription needed please
Post by: alpinecottage on Sunday 28 March 10 21:02 BST (UK)
This link gives all the gory details of Carcinoma of pylorus, and it would explain the "exhaustion" too.
http://www.meb.uni-bonn.de/dtc/primsurg/docbook/html/x12050.html
Title: Re: Death Certificate - help with Cause of Death transcription needed please
Post by: shazzztasstic on Sunday 28 March 10 21:20 BST (UK)
thats fantastic, thank you all very much indeed
Title: Re: Death Certificate - help with Cause of Death transcription needed please
Post by: Redroger on Monday 29 March 10 19:34 BST (UK)
Pleased the medics got there! At least they have a head start with the writing.
Title: Re: Death Certificate - help with Cause of Death transcription needed please
Post by: Annie65115 on Monday 29 March 10 20:47 BST (UK)
 :P :P :P