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Disease from vitamin deficiency: everyone returned to tuck into confection of grape
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pellagra
Alternative clues for the word pellagra
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- Dietary disease
- Disease caused by niacin and protein deficiency
- May be caused by malnutrition or alcoholism or other nutritional impairments
- Disease from fermented grape in which everyone's thrown up
- Characterized by gastrointestinal disturbances and erythema and nervous or mental disorders
- A disease caused by deficiency of niacin or tryptophan (or by a defect in the metabolic conversion of tryptophan to niacin)
Word definitions for pellagra in dictionaries
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
Pellagra is a vitamin deficiency disease most frequently caused by a chronic lack of niacin (vitamin B or synonym: vitamin PP (from: Pellagra Preventing factor)) in the diet. It can be caused by decreased intake of niacin or tryptophan , and possibly by ...
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Word definitions in WordNet
n. 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 ...
Usage examples of pellagra.
Their absence is probably responsible for certain diseases, such as beriberi, scurvy, and possibly pellagra, as well as much ill health of a less definite sort.
The granaries were full and the children of the poor grew up rachitic, and the pustules of pellagra swelled on their sides.