Wiktionary
kakke
n. beriberi
WordNet
Usage examples of "kakke".
One or two cases of that terrible disease known in Japan as Kakke, and elsewhere as Beri-Beri, have just appeared.
There were alcohol, lead, arsenic, bisulphide of carbon, diseases such as diabetes, diphtheria, typhoid, and finally, much to my excitement, was enumerated beriberi, with the added information, "or, as the Japanese call it, kakke.
How could he exist in this clean, dry, monotonous, ordinary room, gobbling caramel soycorn and zucchini cheese puffs and addling his brain on spirituous liquors and brooding on the total fiasco that was his personal life, while the entire human race was kakking out?