pellagra

名词 n.
/pɪˈlaɡɹə/|/pɛˈlaɡɹə/   

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A disease characterised by skin lesions and mental confusion, primarily caused by a niacin deficiency. countable,uncountable
    — In 1755 the French physician Gaspar Casal (1680–1759) published an account of pellagra, then a new disease in Spain.

词形变化

pellagras plural

词源

From Italian pellagra, from Latin pellis (“skin”) + Ancient Greek ἄγρα (ágra, “seizure, attack, catching”).
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