What are Heat-Related Illnesses?=== Prolonged or intense exposure to hot temperatures can cause heat-related illnesses such as heat exhaustion, heat cramps, and heat stroke (also known as sun stroke). As your body works to cool itself under extreme or prolonged heat, blood rushes to the surface of your skin. As a result, less blood reaches your brain, muscles, and other organs. This can interfe...
People who died from Influenza (Flu)== Please add profiles for those who DIED from Influenza to this project, regardless of when. There are links to the individual Endemics/Pandemics below so you can also add them to the appropriate pandemic by date . There are also links to projects for survivors of the flu. ===To add a profile to a specific epidemic/pandemic, Click on the following links to g...
Cholera==From: is an infection of the small intestine by some strains of the bacterium Vibrio cholerae.[1] Symptoms may range from none, to mild, to severe.[2] The classic symptom is large amounts of watery diarrhea that lasts a few days.[3] Vomiting and muscle cramps may also occur.[2] Diarrhea can be so severe that it leads within hours to severe dehydration and electrolyte imbalance.[3] This...
Portal to Geni Project dedicated to medically related projects NO PROFILES please - Add profiles to the projects listed below instead This is an entree to indexed medically related projects on genealogy Geni, please add yours. Feel free to add headings, sub projects & resources. Please add Related projects & tags as needed. If you don’t find a heading that fits or you have a question of...
If Leukemia was the primary cause of death, please add them to this project== Tags: Leukemia, cause of death, blood cancer, blood disease, abnormal white blood cells, acute lymphocytic leukemia, acute myeloid leukemia, chronic myeloid leukemia, chronic myelomonocytic leukemia, chronic lymphocytic leukemia, Leukemia (American English) or leukaemia (British English) /luːˈkiːmiːə/ is a group of ca...
Maternal death is defined as "The death of a woman while pregnant or within 42 days of termination of pregnancy, irrespective of the duration and the site of the pregnancy, from any cause related to or aggravated by the pregnancy or its management, but not from accidental or incidental causes." From Wikipedia Maternal death The world mortality rate has declined 45% since 1990, but still 800 wom...
A burn is an injury to the skin or other organic tissue primarily caused by heat or due to radiation, radioactivity, electricity, friction or contact with chemicals. * They range from minor to severe, and while serious burns can be life-threatening, any burn that causes a break in the skin can result in an infection, which can lead to sepsis.===TYPES OF BURNS=== Thermal (heat) burns occur when ...
Lung cancer , also known as carcinoma of the lung or pulmonary carcinoma, is a malignant lung tumor characterized by uncontrolled cell growth in tissues of the lung. If left untreated, this growth can spread beyond the lung by process of metastasis into nearby tissue or other parts of the body. Most cancers that start in the lung, known as primary lung cancers, are carcinomas that derive from e...
Strangling is compression of the neck that may lead to unconsciousness or death by causing an increasingly hypoxic state in the brain. Fatal strangling typically occurs in cases of violence, accidents, and as the auxiliary lethal mechanism in hangings in the event the neck does not break. Strangling does not have to be fatal; limited or interrupted strangling is practised in erotic asphyxia, in...
Thrombosis (from Ancient Greek θρόμβωσις thrómbōsis "clotting”) is the formation of a blood clot inside a blood vessel, obstructing the flow of blood through the circulatory system. Coronary occlusion, also called coronary thrombosis , is an obstruction or blockage within a coronary artery that hinders blood flow to some part of the heart muscle. * The coronary arteries supply the heart muscle ...
A brain tumor or intracranial neoplasm occurs when abnormal cells form within the brain. There are two main types of tumors: malignant or cancerous tumors and benign tumors. Cancerous tumors can be divided into primary tumors that start within the brain, and secondary tumors that have spread from somewhere else, known as brain metastasis tumors. All types of brain tumors may produce symptoms th...
Bleeding, also known as hemorrhaging or haemorrhaging , is blood escaping from the circulatory system. Bleeding arises due to either traumatic injury, underlying medical condition, or a combination . Bleeding can occur internally , where blood leaks from blood vessels inside the body, or externally , either through a natural opening such as the mouth, nose, ear, urethra, vagina or anus, or thro...
If the Cause of Death on the Death Certificate was “Rheumatism” or "Rheumatoid Arthritis," please add the profile to this project.== ===If Arthritis or Rheumatoid Arthritis contributed to, but was NOT the primary cause of death, please see: Rheumatoid Arthritis (Living with) in the Medical Portal under Autoimmune Diseases.=== ===If this project leads to a need for another project, please addres...
Prostate cancer , also known as carcinoma of the prostate, is the development of cancer in the prostate, a gland in the male reproductive system. Most prostate cancers are slow growing; however, some grow relatively quickly. The cancer cells may spread from the prostate to other parts of the body, particularly the bones and lymph nodes. It may initially cause no symptoms. In later stages it can...
Please add those who died as a result of war wounds.==* If they died of other causes, please add the profile to that cause. Died of Wounds Received in Action: * A battle casualty is someone who later dies of wounds or other injuries received in action, after having reached a medical treatment facility . In the United States the acronym used is DOW, while NATO uses DWRIA. * A battle casualty is ...
=People who died of gallbladder or biliary tract disorders= Located in the upper right portion of the abdomen, the liver and gallbladder are interconnected by ducts known as the biliary tract, which drains into the first segment of the small intestine (the duodenum). Although the liver and gallbladder participate in some of the same functions, they are very different.===Gallbladder and Biliary ...
Parkinson's disease (PD) is a degenerative disorder of the central nervous system mainly affecting the motor system. Early in the course of the disease, the most obvious symptoms are movement-related; these include shaking, rigidity, slowness of movement and difficulty with walking and gait. Later, thinking and behavioral problems may arise, with dementia commonly occurring in the advanced stag...
Assassination is the murder of a prominent person, often but not always a political leader or ruler, usually for political reasons or payment.An assassination may be prompted by religious, political, or military motives; it is an act that may be done for financial gain, to avenge a grievance, from a desire to acquire fame or notoriety, or because of a military, security or insurgent group's com...
From America's Top Killing Machine For the better part of a century, the machine most likely to kill an American has been the automobile.Car crashes killed 33,561 people in 2012, the most recent year for which data is available, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. Firearms killed 32,251 people in the United States in 2011, the most recent year for which the Centers ...
From: is a mosquito-borne infectious disease of humans and other animals caused by parasitic protozoans (a group of single-celled microorganism) belonging to the genus Plasmodium.[1] Malaria causes symptoms that typically include fever, fatigue, vomiting and headaches. In severe cases it can cause yellow skin, seizures, coma or death.[2] The disease is transmitted by the biting of mosquitoes, a...
Please add the profiles of those who died as a result of disease during a war.= == Profiles added to this project may also be added to one of the Infectious disease projects. ==* For example see (there may be others not listed here): Typhus , Typhoid or Typhoid Fever , Dysentery , Cholera , Influenza (Flu) , Gangrene , Malaria , Bubonic plague , Pneumonia
=Flagellation=This project is for people who were beaten or flogged to death. People Beaten to Death: * Bakari Henderson - ABC News - American tourist’s beating death in Greece: What to know. by Morgan Winsor & Dragana Jovanovic 13 Jul 2017 * Kelly Thomas (1974-2011) ( Wikipedia - Death of Kelly Thomas )* Matthew Shepard (1976-1998) - Wikipedia - Matthew Shepard * Delvin Mendoza-Chaparro - Dail...
Add people to this project who have this diagnosis or no specific cancer site (Cancer of Unknown Primary Site). Otherwise please add them to the specific cancer listed (or to both projects).== Project tags: Adenocarcinoma, cause of death, cancer, lung cancer, prostate cancer, pancreatic cancer, esophageal cancer, colorectal cancer, mucus-secreting glands, ductal carcinoma, carcinoma, Adenocarci...
Pancreatic cancer arises when cells in the pancreas, a glandular organ behind the stomach, begin to multiply out of control and form a mass. These cancer cells have the ability to invade other parts of the body. There are a number of types of pancreatic cancer. The most common, pancreatic adenocarcinoma, accounts for about 85% of cases, and the term "pancreatic cancer" is sometimes used to refe...
Stomach cancer, also known as gastric cancer, is cancer developing from the lining of the stomach. ===** Stomach cancer usually begins in the mucus-producing cells that line the stomach. This type of cancer is called adenocarcinoma.* Early symptoms may include heartburn, upper abdominal pain, nausea and loss of appetite. * Later signs and symptoms may include weight loss, yellow skin, vomiting,...