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Obstipation
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Severe constipation caused by intestinal obstruction. [Dorland]
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Obstruction of the Bowels
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Enteremphraxis.
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Example from a 1921 Death
Certificate from Georgia:
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Obesity
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The condition of being
obese; increased body weight caused by excessive accumulation of
fat. [Heritage]
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Ochlotic Fever
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Typhus. [A Treatise
on the Continued Fevers, Wilson, 1881].
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Oedema
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Literally, a swelling
of any kind; but now confined to a swelling of a dropsical
nature, situated in the cellular tissue, and commonly called
watery swelling or puffing. The affection, when extensive, and
accompanied with a general dropsical tendency, is termed
anasarca. [Hoblyn1855]
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Example from a 1930 Death
Certificate from Ohio:
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Onchocerciasis
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Infection with worms of the genus
Onchocerca.
Human infection is caused by O. volvulus, with heavy infestations
usually characterized by the firm subcutaneous nodules called onchocercomas;
a persistent dermatitis with a pruritic papular rash, sometimes
associated with edema, lichenification, thickening, wrinkling, and
atrophy of the skin, with areas of leukoderma; lymphadenitis; and
ocular lesions, related to invasion and local death of the microfilariae
(eye worms), which may progress to optic neuritis, optic atrophy,
and blindness. Called also
onchocercosis
and volvulosis.
There are many local and regional names such as craw-craw, river
blindness, and
sowdah. [Dorland]
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Ophthalmia
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Severe, often purulent, inflammation of the deep structures of the
eye. [CivilWarMed]
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Oral Candidiasis
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Describes a fungal (yeast) infection of the oral cavity due to Candida.
It is common in infants. [CancerWEB]
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Orchitis
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Inflammation of the testicles.
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Example from
an 1881 Military Hospital record in Hampshire, England:
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Oriental Boil / Sore
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Cutaneous
Leishmaniasis.
Also called Oriental boil, Delhi boil or Delhi sore. [Saunders1945]
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Ossification
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Formation of bone Development or increase of the osseous system.
Besides the natural ossification, which we observe in the fetus
and in the first periods of life, there are also accidental ossifications,
such as those frequently remarked, after the inflammation of serous
membranes, in the parietes of arteries. [Dunglison1868]
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Osteomalaciaa
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A disease occurring mostly in adult women that results from a deficiency
in vitamin D or calcium and is characterized by a softening of the
bones with accompanying pain and weakness. [Heritage]
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Osteomyelitis Acute
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A usually bacterial
infection of bone and bone marrow in which the resulting
inflammation can lead to a reduction of blood supply to the
bone. [American heritage]
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Example from a 1911 Death
Certificate from Ohio:
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Osteosarcoma
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Disease of the bony tissue, which consists in softening of its laminae,
and their transformation into a fleshy substance, analogous to that
of cancer; accompanied with general symptoms of cancerous affection.
[Dunglison1868]
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Otitis
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Inflammation of the internal ear. It is
known by pyrexia, and an excruciating and throbbing pain in the
internal ear, that is sometimes attended with delirium.
[Hopper1822] Inflammation of the
mucous membrane of the ear, characterized by excruciating pain;
intolerable humming in the ear, with a discharge of mucus
generally from the meatus externus or from the Eustachian tube.
[Dunglison1864] |
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Otorrhoea
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Drainage from the ear. [CivilWarMed]
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Ozena
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A foul, stinking ulcer in the inside of the nostrils,
discharging a purulent matter, and sometimes accompanied by
caries of the bones. [Thomas1875]
Disease characterized by intra-nasal crusting, atrophy, and fetid
odor; Chronic Rhinitis. [CivilWarMed]
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