That man died of pellagra.
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Pellagra
Synonyms for "pellagra" (32 found)
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11 translations across 11 languages.
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 糙皮病 noun (disease)
Dutch
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Finnish
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French
1 entries- pellagre noun (disease)
German
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Irish
1 entries- peallagra noun (disease)
Italian
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Portuguese
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Russian
1 entries- пелла́гра noun (disease)
Spanish
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Swedish
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Sample sentences
3 total sentences available.
In 1755 the French physician Gaspar Casal (1680–1759) published an account of pellagra, then a new disease in Spain.
Source: wiktionary
Mixing the alkali into the recipe in the right way chemically releases the otherwise unavailable niacin in the corn, which stops pellagra in its tracks, and allowed corn-based agricultural populations to grow and spread.
Source: wiktionary
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