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Old Photographs, Recognition, Handwriting Deciphering => Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition => Topic started by: Tim Brayshaw on Saturday 05 October 19 18:38 BST (UK)
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Hi there,
I was wondering if someone could be so kind as to help me decipher a cause of death. I can see it was Intracranial, but completely at a loss for what the rest of the entry says.
I do hope someone can help me.
Many Thanks
Tim.
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The first word possibly Recurrent?
Cathy
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Agree with 'recurrent'.
As for the rest, the closest thing I can find is periorbital ecchymosis. Could it be a shortened version (periecchymosis?) with terrible handwriting? I have no confidence in this suggestion.
Otherwise, the middle part looks to me like -clys- which of course doesn't fit the above.
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Recurrent intracranial <something>
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Hello.
No expert, but these are the suggestions of our friend.
Alan.
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I've been looking too but so far nothing jumps out. I think it starts with a P or an R.
An outside possibility that the last part could be ??sarcoma, which would mean some form of brain cancer :-\
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I’ve found this site useful in the past,
https://www.dcode.fr/words-containing
Not having much luck though.
Looking at the surname of the certifier which I am confident is Dennis then the word ends in a or e
I wondered if the -C L- is actually a d, so *DYS*. But that didn’t help.
I thought first letter more likely a P as it nothing like the R of recurrent. Then either a vowel e? And a lower case p. (OR it’s a slip of the pen and it’s a PH word. But I think the tail of the second p is too deliberate for that)
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Could the final bit perhaps be sarcoma?
Best regards,
Karen
Edit: Sorry, Gadget! Didn't see you'd already suggested that. :'(
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Could it be ependymoma?
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Could it be ependymoma?
I wondered that, too! It popped up when I threw the other words at Auntie Goggle.
But what's the squiggle at the beginning, why would he write the "d" with a huge gap in the middle, and what on earth is going on witht he first "m"?! ???
Mind you, we are looking at a doctor's handwriting... ;D
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Perhaps OP you could post some more of the cert so we can look at more of the handwriting?
(It’s not the doctors handwriting Karen, it’s the registrar’s)
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(It’s not the doctors handwriting Karen, it’s the registrar’s)
Ah, OK. Sorry! I thought the doctor filled out the form.
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Of course, the doctor did fill out a form, and then the registrar copied it out. so.....maybe the registrar couldn’t read the doctors handwriting ;D ;D
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Thank you so much everyone for your input. I've never had this much of an issue deciphering a death certificate before.
So far it does indeed seem to be Recurrent Intracranial Ependymoma, but I will post here later a photograph of the whole certificate for you to peruse over.
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Streached
Malky
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From the Internet
An ependymoma is a tumour that arises from the ependyma, a tissue of the central nervous system. Usually, in pediatric cases the location is intracranial, while in adults it is spinal.
Sounds awful.