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From: margL <>
Subject: Re: [MEDICAL-PEDIGREE] Manition Exhaustion ?
Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2005 21:49:30 +1000 (EST)
In-Reply-To: <002a01c5db61$ca0716a0$48d9f7a5@js>


I think the word might be inanition - it seems to relate to starvation.
best wishes
Margaret L

Jeanne Surber <> wrote:
Liz wrote:
> Hi All,
> I'm trying to find out what the 'cause of death' term "Manition
Exhaustion" means. It is listed on a death certificate I have for an infant
who died only 14 days old. I've googled the term, but come up with nothing
to explain what it is. I've also checked just about every "old medical
terms" website with no luck. Interestingly enough other people have come
across the term, as it is listed on various personal family tree websites as
a cause of death.
> Would love to hear from anyone who knows what it is.
> Cheers
> Liz

Manition??? Hmmmmmm.... Like you, I googled it and found it frequent
mentions as a cause of death. And yet -- can't find a definition anywhere.
When I found this website http://www.antiquusmorbus.com/Index.htm I thought
that would surely have it listed. This website has the heading: "A Glossary
of Archaic Medical Terms, Diseases and Causes of Death -- The Genealogist's
Resource for Interpreting Causes of Death" and it has many interesting
terms.

Also it has a place to enter terms that it doesn't yet define. So I
submitted "manition" and maybe they'll come up with a definition.

I also found a medical dictionary at
http://cancerweb.ncl.ac.uk/omd/contents/M.html but no "manition" there
either.

Checked out http://www.genealogy-quest.com/glossaries/diseases1.html but
nothing there either.

Lots of good stuff at those websites, but no "manition."

From what turned up through Google, this term was apparently used often in
connection with causes of death. But no current definition seems to exist.

I'm going to take a wild guess here that it's a word from the Latin word
root "emanare" meaning to flow out of. Perhaps exhaustion of manition
simply meant that the life force was exhausted and the individual died,
i.e., the cessation of life. (?) Just a guess.

If anyone can solve this puzzle, please let us all know. Or Liz, if you find
out, please put it on line.

Jeanne Surber





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