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Definition of Pellagrous
1. a. Pertaining to, or affected with, or attendant on, pellagra; as, pellagrous insanity.
Definition of Pellagrous
1. [adj]
Medical Definition of Pellagrous
1. Relating to or suffering from pellagra. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pellagrous
Literary usage of Pellagrous
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Newer Knowledge of Nutrition: The Use of Food for the Preservation of by Elmer Verner McCollum (1922)
"Report of Cases of pellagrous Mothers Nursing Babies ... A mother suffering from
severe pellagrous lesions was admitted to the hospital while nursing a ..."
2. A Text-book of Psychiatry for Physicians and Students by Leonardo Bianchi (1906)
"CHAPTER XXIV pellagrous INSANITY THIS is a disease arising from intoxication of
the nervous system. It is confined to certain regions in Italy, Greece, ..."
3. A Manual of Psychological Medicine, Containing the Lunacy Laws: The Nosology by John Charles Bucknill, Daniel Hack Tuke (1879)
""We found that at the commencement of 1862 there were 82 cases of pellagrous
Insanity in the establishment, ..."
4. Pellagra by Giulio Cesare Alessandrini, Alberto Scala, Edward Mentor Perdue (1916)
"INGESTION OF THE WATER OF A pellagrous ZONE ... to which we have fed the water
which is drunk in a pellagrous zone of Gualdo Tadino, mixed with a certain ..."
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