pellagra
English
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /pɪˈlaɡɹə/, /pɛˈlaɡɹə/
Noun
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
Finnish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈpelːɑɡrɑ/, [ˈpe̞lːɑ̝ɡrɑ̝]
- Rhymes: -elːɑɡrɑ
- Syllabification(key): pel‧lag‧ra
Declension
| Inflection of pellagra (Kotus type 9/kala, no gradation) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pelˈla.ɡra/
- Rhymes: -aɡra
- Hyphenation: pel‧là‧gra
Related terms
Further reading
- pellagra in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
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