pellagra
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English
Etymology
From Lombard pellagra, probably from Latin pellis (“skin”) + Lombard -agra (“sour”).
Pronunciation
Noun
pellagra (countable and uncountable, plural pellagras)
- (pathology) A disease characterised by skin lesions and mental confusion, primarily caused by a niacin deficiency.
- 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.
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Translations
disease
Finnish
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
pellagra
Declension
| Inflection of pellagra (Kotus type 9/kala, no gradation) | |||
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| 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 | — | |
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| comitative | See the possessive forms below. | ||
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Italian
Pronunciation
Noun
pellagra f (plural pellagre)
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Further reading
- pellagra in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana