pellagra in English

noun

1

a deficiency disease caused by a lack of nicotinic acid or its precursor tryptophan in the diet. It is characterized by dermatitis, diarrhea, and mental disturbance, and is often linked to overdependence on corn as a staple food.

Those highly dependent on corn as a food might develop pellagra and this chronic disease, causing dermatitis, diarrhea, and ultimately dementia, battered the population of European corn growing regions during the nineteenth century.

Use "pellagra" in a sentence

1. So what causes pellagra and crimson spew?

2. During Opa’s internment, he suffered from pellagra and nutritional edema (starvation sickness).

3. 17 A lack of niacin , it caused pellagra, dermatitis, diarrhea, dementia embolism.

4. 20 Pellagra is caused by a severe deficiency of biologically available niacin in the diet.

5. A disease, as scurvy , beriberi , or pellagra, caused by deficiency of one or more essential vitamins.

6. Avitaminosis definition is - disease (such as pellagra) resulting from a deficiency of one or more vitamins.

7. The lack of a vitamin called niacin causes pellagra, a disease characterized by dermatitis, diarrhea, dementia, and possibly death.

8. Bowel diseases with malabsorption can present on the skin as itching or scaling or as characteristic diseases like pellagra and acrodermatitis enteropathica.

9. What does Avitaminosis mean? A disease, such as scurvy, beriberi, or pellagra, caused by deficiency of one or more es

10. 26 Pellagra: Nutritional disorder caused largely by a deficiency of niacin, marked by skin lesions and digestive and neurological disturbances.

11. 21 It also prevents pellagra -- a disease that causes weakness, reddish skin and stomach problems. Niacin is found in meat, fish and green vegetables.

12. ‘The carcinoid syndrome is classically described as flushing, diarrhea, and abdominal cramps, but Borborygmi, cyanosis, telangiectasis, pellagra like skin lesions, wheezing, dypsnea or palpitations may also occur.’

13. 28 Pellagra still occurs where diets consist mostly of corn, which is low in both niacin and tryptophan (converted to niacin in the body), with little or no protein-rich food.

14. Avitaminosis is a group of diseases that is due to a lack of one or more than one vitamin. The diseases in the Avitaminosis group are pellagra, beriberi, scurvy, rickets, and night blindness

15. The tortilla may therefore be one reason why pellagra is not a common disease in the poor zones of Mexico, except in some areas where it is the custom to rinse the nixtamal to whiten the masa, which washes the niacin away.