pellagra
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- (British) IPA: /pɪˈlaɡɹə/, /pɛˈlaɡɹə/
pellagra
- (pathology) A disease characterised by skin lesions and mental confusion, primarily caused by a niacin deficiency. [from 19th c.]
- 1997, Roy Porter, The Greatest Benefit to Mankind, Folio Society 2016, p. 531:
- In 1755 the French physician Gaspar Casal (1680–1759) published an account of pellagra, then a new disease in Spain.
- 1997, Roy Porter, The Greatest Benefit to Mankind, Folio Society 2016, p. 531:
- pellagric
- pellagrous
- French: pellagre
- German: Pellagra
- Italian: pellagra
- Portuguese: pelagra
- Russian: пелла́гра
- Spanish: pelagra
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