pellagra
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Lombard pellagra, probably from Latin pellis (“skin”) + Lombard -agra (“sour”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
pellagra (countable and uncountable, plural pellagras)
- (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, published 2016, page 531:
- In 1755 the French physician Gaspar Casal (1680–1759) published an account of pellagra, then a new disease in Spain.
- 2016, Joseph Henrich, chapter 7, in The Secret of Our Success […] , Princeton: Princeton University Press, →ISBN:
- 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.
Related terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
disease
Finnish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
pellagra
Declension[edit]
Inflection of pellagra (Kotus type 9/kala, no gradation) | ||||
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nominative | pellagra | — | ||
genitive | pellagran | — | ||
partitive | pellagraa | — | ||
illative | pellagraan | — | ||
singular | plural | |||
nominative | pellagra | — | ||
accusative | nom. | pellagra | — | |
gen. | pellagran | |||
genitive | pellagran | — | ||
partitive | pellagraa | — | ||
inessive | pellagrassa | — | ||
elative | pellagrasta | — | ||
illative | pellagraan | — | ||
adessive | pellagralla | — | ||
ablative | pellagralta | — | ||
allative | pellagralle | — | ||
essive | pellagrana | — | ||
translative | pellagraksi | — | ||
abessive | pellagratta | — | ||
instructive | — | — | ||
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
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Italian[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
pellagra f (plural pellagre)
Related terms[edit]
Further reading[edit]
- pellagra in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
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- Rhymes:Finnish/elːɑɡrɑ
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- Rhymes:Italian/aɡra
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