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Definition of Maidism
1. Noun. A disease caused by deficiency of niacin or tryptophan (or by a defect in the metabolic conversion of tryptophan to niacin); characterized by gastrointestinal disturbances and erythema and nervous or mental disorders; may be caused by malnutrition or alcoholism or other nutritional impairments.
Generic synonyms: Avitaminosis, Hypovitaminosis
Definition of Maidism
1. a chronic disease due to a vitamin deficiency [n -S]
Medical Definition of Maidism
1. Synonym: pellagra. Origin: Zea mays, maise (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Maidism
Literary usage of Maidism
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Dublin University Magazine: A Literary and Political Journal (1860)
"This was first met by making old-maidism compulsory on the surplus portion of
the female population. Establishments of vestals were formed in Rome, ..."
2. Literary News by L. Pylodet, Augusta Harriet (Garrigue) Leypoldt (1896)
"In regard to the happy state of old-maidism it may be said that one is born to
it, or one may achieve it, or it may be thrust upon one. ..."
3. Saint Louis Medical and Surgical Journal (1893)
"His reference, toor to the " sham coyness of linguistic old-maidism " is scarcely
complimentary to the prototype implied in this observation; ..."
4. Mind in the Lower Animals, in Health and Disease by William Lauder Lindsay (1880)
"There is no accounting for the love vagaries of the female, who sometimes pays
the penalty of old-maidism for her capricious rejection of eligible offers of ..."
5. Three Old Maids in Hawaii by Ellen Blackmar Maxwell (1896)
"In regard to the happy state of old-maidism, it may be said that one is born to
it, or one may achieve it, or it may be thrust upon one. ..."
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