Medical Definition of Vitamin e deficiency

1. A nutritional condition produced by a deficiency of vitamin e in the diet, characterised by posterior column and spinocerebellar tract abnormalities, areflexia, ophthalmoplegia, and disturbances of gait, proprioception, and vibration. In premature infants vitamin e deficiency is associated with haemolytic anaemia, thrombocytosis, oedema, intraventricular haemorrhage, and increasing risk of retrolental fibroplasia and bronchopulmonary dysplasia. An apparent inborn error of vitamin e metabolism, named familial isolated vitamin e deficiency, has recently been identified. (cecil textbook of medicine, 19th ed, p1181) (12 Dec 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Vitamin E Deficiency

vitamin C
vitamin C deficiency
vitamin C test
vitamin C unit
vitamin D
vitamin D
vitamin d-binding protein
vitamin d-resistant rickets
vitamin D2
vitamin D3
vitamin D deficiency
vitamin D milk
vitamin D unit
vitamin E
vitamin E
vitamin e deficiency (current term)
vitamin E unit
vitamin F
vitamin G
vitamin G
vitamin H
vitamin H
vitamin K
vitamin K
vitamin K1
vitamin K1
vitamin K2
vitamin K2(35)
vitamin K3
vitamin K3

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