Similar words: flagrant, flagrantly, conflagration, flagella, repellant, a cappella, appellant, appellate. Meaning: 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 alcoholism or other nutritional impairments.
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1. Another form of mental disorder, pellagra, was associated clinically with diarrhoea and dermatitis.
2. Members of the first group developed pellagra .
3. Another form of erythema is pellagra.
4. For the South, pellagra was more than simply a medical problem.
5. Pellagra is caused by a severe deficiency of biologically available niacin in the diet.
6. He even swallowed pills that contained skin from pellagra patients.
7. It also prevents pellagra -- a disease that causes weakness, reddish skin and stomach problems. Niacin is found in meat, fish and green vegetables.
8. It can be applied in the treatment of pellagra and used as a vitamin supply for human body.
9. A disease, as scurvy , beriberi , or pellagra, caused by deficiency of one or more essential vitamins.sentencedict.com/pellagra.html
10. Iron deficiency anemia, scurvy, beriberi, and pellagra are examples of injury caused by deficits in specific vitamins or minerals.
11. Pellagra: Nutritional disorder caused largely by a deficiency of niacin, marked by skin lesions and digestive and neurological disturbances.
12. 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.
13. A lack of niacin , it caused pellagra, dermatitis, diarrhea, dementia embolism.
14. Eat too much of it and you will end up with pellagra.
15. Colitis, which is histologically similar to ulcerative colitis, has also been described in association with pellagra.
16. They also prevent certain diseases such as rickets and pellagra .
17. A secondary action of this drug is to cause pellagra.
18. Other doctors looked for foods to cure the diseases rickets and pellagra .
19. He could tell of consumption making inroads on entire families and of pellagra, once found only among poor whites[sentencedict.com], which was now appearing in Atlanta 's best families.
20. Other doctors looked for foods to cure the diseases rickets and pellagra. They did not yet understand that they were seeing the problem from the opposite direction.
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