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Position:Home>Genealogy> Herniphlegia medical term?Question: Herniphlegia medical term?details on death certificate 1907 died of herniphlegia diahorhea and exhaustion what is herniphlegia? please Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: I think it is probably hemiplegia - a stroke affecting 1 half of the body. Doctors were very bad at hand writing possibly to disguise their diagnosis. The stroke could easily cause incontinence hence the diarrhoea. Exhaustion was a term used cover no treatment had been successful. |