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Definition of Pellagra
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 Pellagra
1. n. An erythematous affection of the skin, with severe constitutional and nervous symptoms, endemic in Northern Italy.
Definition of Pellagra
1. Noun. (pathology) A disease, with skin lesions and mental confusion, primarily caused by a niacin deficiency. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Pellagra
1. a niacin-deficiency disease [n -S]
Medical Definition of Pellagra
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Pellagra
Literary usage of Pellagra
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Treatise on diseases of the skin for advanced students and practitioners by Henry Weightman Stelwagon (1916)
"pellagra is an endemic systemic disease, characterized by cutaneous ... In recent
years sporadic cases 'Some important literature of pellagra. ..."
2. Monographic Medicine by William Robie Patten Emerson, Guido Guerrini, William Brown, Wendell Christopher Phillips, John Whitridge Williams, John Appleton Swett, Hans Günther, Mario Mariotti, Hugh Grant Rowell (1916)
"pellagra in its relation, to nr urology and psychiatry. Am. JM Sc., Philadelphia,
1912, ... The experimental production of lesions resembling pellagra. ..."
3. The Newer Knowledge of Nutrition: The Use of Food for the Preservation of by Elmer Verner McCollum (1922)
"Further, ". . . the endemic foci of pellagra were located in the districts in
which surface privies were in use." In two cotton mill villages completely ..."
4. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1916)
"Of the 209 cases of pellagra observed at the two orphanages during the spring
... pellagra may, therefore, be prevented by an appropriate diet without any ..."
5. Handbook of Therapy by Oliver Thomas Osborne, Morris Fishbein (1920)
"Interest also centers in the broader hypothesis that pellagra is due to some ...
The Thompson-McFadden pellagra Commission has stated that its efforts to ..."
6. Proceedings of the second Pan American scientific congress: Washington, U. S by Glen Levin Swiggett (1917)
"One of the outstanding features of the epidemiology of pellagra is the ...
Approaching the problem of the possible relation of diet to pellagra in this way, ..."
7. Tropical Diseases: A Manual of the Diseases of Warm Climates by Patrick Manson (1918)
"Europe; pellagra has a wide distribution in Southern Europe. ... 12 pellagra was
not known to be endemic in the British Islands. ..."
8. Mortality Statistics of Insured Wage-earners and Their Families: Experience by Louis Israel Dublin, Edwin William Kopf, George H. Van Buren (1919)
"pellagra. The facts for pellagra mortality in this investigation of insured wage
earners are of special importance, first, because the areas represented in ..."
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