pellagra
8 letters · noun · scores 2,200 in SpellHuntr
noun
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
Pellagra in a sentence
In 1755 the French physician Gaspar Casal (1680–1759) published an account of pellagra, then a new disease in Spain.
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