scurvies in English
noun
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a disease caused by a deficiency of vitamin C, characterized by swollen bleeding gums and the opening of previously healed wounds, which particularly affected poorly nourished sailors until the end of the 18th century.
So it's a little bit different to the sort of classic nutritional deficiency diseases, like scurvy , it seems to be slightly more complicated than that.
noun
scorbutus
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