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Definition of "scorbutus" []

  • The disease scurvy. (noun)

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Use "scorbutus" in a sentence
  • "The approximation of these two cases to sea-scurvy is peculiar, and may allow them to be called scorbutus pulmonalis."
  • "This indicates on the one hand that the substance is an acid, on the other hand that it has a counteracting effect on scurvy, the medical name of which is scorbutus; thus the word ascorbic acid is equivalent to anti-scurvy acid."
  • "= Scurvy = — “scorbutus” of medical writers — is a disease which, even in its incipient and early stages, when its presence is often unsuspected, is most injurious to the skin and complexion."
Words like "scorbutus"
avitaminosis
Barlow's disease
Cheadle's disease
Cheadle-Möller-Barlow syndrome
hypovitaminosis
Möller-Barlow disease
Moeller's disease
scurvy