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Title: Medical term on hospital records
Post by: stevenroyals on Monday 27 December 10 01:46 GMT (UK)

Hi

One of my female relatives went to hospital in 1901 suffering from 'Retamea Placinta.

I had trouble reading what it said but I think this is the most accurate. I can't find this term anywhere in medical dictionaries. Possibly the second word is actually placenta.

Thanks
Steve

Title: Re: Medical term on hospital records
Post by: craggagh on Monday 27 December 10 01:49 GMT (UK)

Possibly 'Retained Placenta'.

craggagh.

Title: Re: Medical term on hospital records
Post by: ceccharlton on Monday 27 December 10 01:57 GMT (UK)

this would definitely be 'retained placenta'

Title: Re: Medical term on hospital records
Post by: stevenroyals on Monday 27 December 10 03:19 GMT (UK)

Thanks for your help.
She did have a child the year before, probbly only a few moths earlier.

Steve

Title: Re: Medical term on hospital records
Post by: LizzieW on Monday 27 December 10 15:47 GMT (UK)

Not usual to have a retained placenta for a long time, that could have killed her eventually.  My guess is that she had a stillbirth at home, which wouldn't have been registered and then she had a retained placenta.  That's probably why you think she had a child a year before Steve. Modfied I meant the fact that a stillbirth wouldn't be registered is why you probably thought it was related to a birth a year previously.

Lizzie.

Title: Re: Medical term on hospital records
Post by: Patricia jackson on Monday 27 December 10 16:13 GMT (UK)

 :) yes I would say retained placenta