Crossword-Solution: PELLAGRA
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Pellagra | n. | An erythematous affection of the skin, with severe constitutional and nervous symptoms, endemic in Northern Italy. |
We have 4 clues for the answer “PELLAGRA”
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| Disease caused by niacin and protein deficiency | 1 answer |
| Disease obviated by niacin. | 1 answer |
| MAIZE-based diet, skin disease common in people on a | 1 answer |
| nutritional deficiency disease | 8 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
EECMAZ
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with PELLAGRA (5)
Besides, in consequence of bad food and overwork, these unhappy creatures are, by hundreds, devoured by pellagra--a disease that, in my country, attacks, as the physicians say, those who are badly fed and lead a life of toil and privation.
Pansy, however, in spite of _her_ simplicity, really did understand, and was glad that Lord Warburton should talk to her, not about her partners and bouquets, but about the state of Italy, the condition of the peasantry, the famous grist-tax, the pellagra, his impressions of Roman society.
Mayberry," exclaimed Miss Wingate with a delightful laugh, "And no wonder Doctor Mayberry is so gifted that he gets National commissions to study Pellagra and--and has a troublesome singer lady sent all the way from New York to patch up." "Yes, it do look like that Tom Mayberry gets in a good chanct everywhere he goes.
And then here he comes back, sent by the Government right down to Flat Rock, on the other side of Providence Nob, to study out about that curious corn disease they calls Pellagra, what I don't think is a thing in the world but itch and can be cured by a little sulphur and hog lard.
Following his discovery of vitamine as the preventative substance to beri- beri, Funk had outlined a theory of "avitaminoses" as the responsible cause of several other types of diseases, including scurvy, rickets, pellagra, and beri-beri.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (1955–1986).