Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
scurvy .
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- noun (Med.) Scurvy.
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- noun pathology The disease
scurvy .
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- noun a condition caused by deficiency of ascorbic acid (vitamin C)
Etymologies
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Examples
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The approximation of these two cases to sea-scurvy is peculiar, and may allow them to be called scorbutus pulmonalis.
Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life Erasmus Darwin 1766
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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.
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The name Buckbean is perhaps a corruption of _scorbutus_, scurvy; this giving it another title, "scurvy bean."
Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure William Thomas Fernie
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= 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.
The Ladies Book of Useful Information Compiled from many sources Anonymous
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(_Synonyms: _ Scurvy; Sea Scurvy; Purpura Scorbutica.) #Describe scorbutus.
Essentials of Diseases of the Skin Including the Syphilodermata Arranged in the Form of Questions and Answers Prepared Especially for Students of Medicine Henry Weightman Stelwagon 1886
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"To his sagacity we are indebted for the first impulse to those regulations by which scorbutus is so successfully prevented in our navy."
Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851
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"To his sagacity we are indebted for the first impulse to those regulations by which scorbutus is so successfully prevented in our navy."
Medical Essays, 1842-1882 Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851
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Could those symptoms be owing to very extensive adhesions of the lungs? or is this a scorbutus pulmonalis?
Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life Erasmus Darwin 1766
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The name scurvy comes from the Latin scorbutus, and humans have known about the disease since ancient Greek and Egyptian times ...
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Others are sheer folk etymology, like scheurbuik ` ripping belly 'for scurvy (Lat. scorbutus).
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