pellagra

/puh-lag-ruh, -ley-gruh, -lah-/US // pəˈlæg rə, -ˈleɪ grə, -ˈlɑ- //UK // (pəˈleɪɡrə, -ˈlæ-) //

糙皮病,癞皮病,狼疮,糙皮症

Definitions

n.名词 noun

1
Pathology.
- : a disease caused by a deficiency of niacin in the diet, characterized by skin changes, severe nerve dysfunction, mental symptoms, and diarrhea.

The Italian disease, pellagra, manifests the features one would expect from an improper food taken under unhygienic conditions.
Usually, where a mixed diet with meat is possible, pellagra never appears.
The firm quotes but one paper (which is a very uncritical report) in regard to pellagra.
(c) Arrange a well balanced diet for pellagra in which forty grams of protein shall come from milk, meat or eggs.
The accumulated evidence is increasingly opposed to Sambon's hypothesis of the transmission of pellagra by Simulium.