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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread Page 1 of 2 1 2 #210737 - 05/04/13 06:26 AM Invented medical terms?   Joined: May 2013 Posts: 6 zakerna stranger zakerna   stranger Joined: May 2013 Posts: 6 South Africa http://www2.lib.uct.ac.za/mss/bccd/ On the above data base, my great-grandmother's cause of death is given as "maemia" - I cannot find out what it means by Googling. A fellow genealogist's ancestor died of "paedotrophia" - and she cannot find out what that is, either. Is it possible that the British concentration camp authorities wrote down any medical-sounding words they could devise to disguise the fact that people were dying like flies of starvation and so on? Or are those really medical terms? #210738 - 05/04/13 11:22 AM Re: Invented medical terms? [Re: zakerna]   Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 Faldage Carpal Tunnel Faldage   Carpal Tunnel Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 Part of it may be the ligature æ being replaced by e. That said, I find nothing in onelook for memia, but pedatrophia does yield this. #210740 - 05/04/13 02:23 PM Re: Invented medical terms? [Re: zakerna]   Joined: Aug 2005 Posts: 3,290 zmjezhd Carpal Tunnel zmjezhd   Carpal Tunnel Joined: Aug 2005 Posts: 3,290 R'lyeh maemia It might be a transcription error for anaemia. Ceci n'est pas un seing. #210744 - 05/04/13 05:22 PM Re: Invented medical terms? [Re: Faldage]   Joined: May 2013 Posts: 6 zakerna stranger zakerna   stranger Joined: May 2013 Posts: 6 South Africa Thanks! #210745 - 05/04/13 05:29 PM Re: Invented medical terms? [Re: zakerna]   Joined: May 2013 Posts: 6 zakerna stranger zakerna   stranger Joined: May 2013 Posts: 6 South Africa pedatropia or marasmus: extreme malnutrition and emaciation (especially in children); can result from inadequate intake of food... I'll say! #210755 - 05/05/13 03:31 PM Re: Invented medical terms? [Re: zakerna]   Joined: Jun 2008 Posts: 8,961 LukeJavan8 Carpal Tunnel LukeJavan8   Carpal Tunnel Joined: Jun 2008 Posts: 8,961 Land of the Flat Water WELCOME,zakerna ----please, draw me a sheep---- #210828 - 05/07/13 08:00 PM Re: Invented medical terms? [Re: zakerna]   Joined: May 2013 Posts: 6 zakerna stranger zakerna   stranger Joined: May 2013 Posts: 6 South Africa Thank you for the welcome. Where must I draw you a sheep? Why must I draw you a sheep? #210845 - 05/09/13 05:47 AM Re: Invented medical terms? [Re: zakerna]   Joined: Jun 2006 Posts: 5,295 BranShea Carpal Tunnel BranShea   Carpal Tunnel Joined: Jun 2006 Posts: 5,295 Netherlands, the Hague I think the signature is a quote from Winny the Pooh and something like a rethorical question. #210849 - 05/09/13 06:52 AM Re: Invented medical terms? [Re: BranShea]   Joined: May 2010 Posts: 958 Tromboniator old hand Tromboniator   old hand Joined: May 2010 Posts: 958 Alaska The Little Prince (Le Petit Prince) – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. May be rhetorical; some take it literally. #210853 - 05/09/13 03:47 PM Re: Invented medical terms? [Re: Tromboniator]   Joined: Jun 2008 Posts: 8,961 LukeJavan8 Carpal Tunnel LukeJavan8   Carpal Tunnel Joined: Jun 2008 Posts: 8,961 Land of the Flat Water Exactly, Peter. I responded to the question in a PM. Since the Pilot cannot draw very well, he draws a box, and tells the Prince that the sheep is in the box, which satisfies him. ----please, draw me a sheep---- Page 1 of 2 1 2 Moderated by  Jackie  Hop To General Topics ------   Information and announcements   Q&A about words   Wordplay and fun   Words and languages in schools   Miscellany   Weekly Themes   Looking for (writers, speakers, ...) (Old) Weekly themes. 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