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Possible medical facial blemish or condition unknown term
« on: Saturday 08 September 18 16:56 BST (UK) »
Hi Can anyone decipher these letters  of the word that looks like 'sumervoise' or 'sununervoise' which I think from memory were on a medical report from the army.

There were a few people with this  'condition' listed but I have been unable to find out what is may be.

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Re: Possible medical facial blemish or condition unknown term
« Reply #1 on: Saturday 08 September 18 20:30 BST (UK) »
This is a tough one isn't it!  ::)

It looks like summervoise to me but it is proving hard to find anything close to this on medical dictionaries.

What year is this report?
Ashford: Somerset, London
England: Devon, London, New Zealand
Holdway: Wiltshire
Hooper: Bristol, Somerset
Knowling: Devon, London
Southcott: Devon, China
Strong: Wiltshire
Watson: Cambridgeshire
White: Bristol
Windo - Gloucestershire, Somerset, Wiltshire

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Re: Possible medical facial blemish or condition unknown term
« Reply #2 on: Saturday 08 September 18 20:39 BST (UK) »
I agree re Summervoise.   I wondered if it might be some sort of rash brought on in the summer heat  but this is pure speculation  :-\

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Re: Possible medical facial blemish or condition unknown term
« Reply #3 on: Saturday 08 September 18 22:03 BST (UK) »
I saw summervoise too & wondered if it was a term for freckles but can't find anything to suggest that except I now know the German for freckles is Sommersprossen - 'summer sprouts  ::)


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Re: Possible medical facial blemish or condition unknown term
« Reply #4 on: Saturday 08 September 18 22:21 BST (UK) »
How intriguing, will be interested to find out what it means.  Flushed complexion perhaps. 

Summer sprouts blimey  :-X
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Re: Possible medical facial blemish or condition unknown term
« Reply #5 on: Saturday 08 September 18 23:06 BST (UK) »
I checked synonyms for rashes, freckles, liver spots, sunburn, flushed skin, hives, wrinkles, moles, birthmarks, etc.  Can't find it.
Wiltshire:  Banks, Taylor
Somerset:  Duddridge, Richards, Barnard, Pillinger
Gloucestershire:  Barnard, Marsh, Crossman
Bristol:  Banks, Duddridge, Barnard
Down:  Ennis, McGee
Wicklow:  Chapman, Pepper
Wigtownshire:  Logan, Conning
Wisconsin:  Ennis, Chapman, Logan, Ware
Maine:  Ware, Mitchell, Tarr, Davis

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Re: Possible medical facial blemish or condition unknown term
« Reply #6 on: Sunday 09 September 18 04:13 BST (UK) »
Just when I was about to give up, I found this! Now that we know how to spell it, if you google it as summer voys (2 words), or summer-voys (hyphenated), google spits up a lot of old books with the term.

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Re: Possible medical facial blemish or condition unknown term
« Reply #7 on: Sunday 09 September 18 04:49 BST (UK) »
Well found  :)   A map showing the area it originated from  http://www.rootschat.com/links/01mod/    Love the other names freckles were also known by

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Re: Possible medical facial blemish or condition unknown term
« Reply #8 on: Sunday 09 September 18 05:02 BST (UK) »
Well found bbart!  :)

I kept getting voise changed to voice, which was very frustrating!