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I became interested in the term “manition” when I read it in a death certificate from 2006. I contacted the doctor who completed said death certificate and he explained this strange and undefined term to me.
The previous topic was partially correct. “Manition” is actually a misspelling that has come into common usage. The actual term is “starvation” or “the loss of vitality due to lack of food and water”.
It makes a lot of sense if you look at the two words…. the first two letters “in” are confused with an “m”. Probably caused by bad writing (as was the case in 2006)!
It would make sense to find the term in the medical records of cancer patients and the like. Many people stop taking food and water when they are about to expire.
I hope everyone who has been interested in “Manition” and its roots finds this!
PS – You don’t believe me? Look up “starvation” in Dictionary.com—-
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I googled “cancer mania” and found many sites with death certificate listings showing the same terminology. However, I found one that was listed like this:
Manição (sic) and hunger due to cancer
The term “sic” is used to indicate that a quoted passage, especially one containing an error or unconventional spelling, has been kept in its original form or intentionally written. So apparently MANITION was an often misspelled term for an unknown purpose. I searched medical dictionaries as well as dictionaries containing obsolete words. The respondent above may be correct that it could be MANATION, although the definition doesn’t quite fit (cancer doesn’t drain or really drain). Another possibility could be MONITION (an imitation of danger). This definition could have been twisted 100 years ago to mean that someone died AS A RESULT OF.
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