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Übel

Evil, sickness

 

Übelkeit

Nausea

 

Übelriechend

Fetid, vile-smelling

 

Uebergangszeit

Change of life, cessation of the menses

 

Umschlag

Abortion

 

Unbekannt

Unknown

(Entry from a Church in New York)

 

Ungarische krankheit

Malaria

 

Unglücksfall

Falling sickness, epilepsy

 

Unterliebsbrand

Abdominal gangrene.

(Entry from an 1849 Church Record in Branna, Czech Republic)

 

Unterleibsentzündung

Peritonitis; inflammation of the peritoneum; the serous membrane that lines the walls of the abdominal cavity and folds inward to enclose the viscera.

Example from an 1834 Church Record in Germany:

Unterleibskrankheit

Abdominal disease

Unterleibsleiden

Abdominal affection

 

Unterleibsschmerzen

Abdominal pain

 

Unterleibstyphus

Typhus Abdominalis (Typhoid fever)

 

Unterleibswassersucht

Ascites; an abnormal accumulation of serous fluid in the abdominal cavity.

 

Unwohlsein

Illness

 

Unzeitig Geburt

Untimely Birth

 

Urämie

Uremia

 

 

 

 

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