Chronic glomerulonephritis is inflammation of the blood vessels in the kidneys

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And, just to pick a nit, uremia is not a bladder infection. It's a toxic condition resulting from the retention of urea in the blood, caused by renal failure of some sort -- in this case, by the aforementioned chronic glomerulonephritis, both of which had been previously diagnosed.

Without going into gruesome and pointless speculation too much, however, it may be possible that a simple, unadorned "skull fracture" was legally sufficient in 1929 as the official cause of Murray's traumatic death (as opposed to Voynow's in 1944, which was the result of a disease process). I don't know of a medical term more complicated than that for the fatal breaking of one's head, although there are usually descriptions of the location of the fracture(s) and what kind of fractures they are (e.g., comminuted basilar skull fracture). Perhaps that's the kind of information you feel is missing, Linda?

-Barb

Posted on May 29, 2007, 11:57 AM

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