1) Avitaminosis 2) Deficiency disease 3) Diet-deficiency ailment 4) Dietary deficiency disease 5) Disease of the East 6) Hypovitaminosis 7) Lack of vitamin b causes it 8) Result of thiamine deficiency 9) Thiamin deficiency 10) Thiamine deficiency disease 11) Thiamine deficiency woe 12) Thiamine-deficiency disease
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• (n.) An acute disease occurring in India, characterized by multiple inflammatory changes in the nerves, producing great muscular debility, a painful rigidity of the limbs, and cachexy.
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nutritional disorder caused by a deficiency of thiamin (vitamin B1) and characterized by impairment of the nerves and heart. General symptoms include ... [10 related articles]
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A deficiency disease caused by lack of thiamine (vitamin B
1); it may occur in malnutrition, alcoholism, or as an isolated deficiency. Neuritis leading to sensory changes, and foot or wrist drop, palpitations, edema, and heart failure are features.
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<disease> An endemic form of polyneuritis (nerve inflammation), due to an unbalanced diet, with a deficiency of vitamin B1(thiamin). ... Common in those who chronically abuse alcohol. ... (11 Jan 1998) ...
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(ber″e-ber´e) an endemic form of polyneuritis due to an unbalanced diet, chiefly a lack of thiamine (vitamin B1). It is more common in areas where refined rice is the main staple in the diet; however, improved refining processes, enrichment and fortification of grain and cereal products, and improved dietary habit...
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Vitamin B1 deficiency
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Be`ri·be'ri noun [ Singhalese
beri weakness.] An acute disease occurring in India, characterized by multiple inflammatory changes in the nerves, producing great muscular debility, a painful rigidity of the limbs, and cachexy.
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Type: Term Pronunciation: ber′ē-ber′ē Definitions: 1. A specific nutritional deficiency syndrome occurring in endemic form in eastern and southern Asia, sporadically in other parts of the world without reference to climate, and sometimes in alcoholic patients, resulting mainly from a dietary deficiency of thiamin; the 'dry' fo...
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Beriberi: A syndrome characterized by inflammation of multiple nerves (polyneuritis), heart disease (cardiopathy), and edema (swelling) due to a deficiency of thiamine (vitamin B1) in the diet.
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Beriberi is a disease, endemic in east and south Asia, caused by a dietary deficiency of thiamine. It affects the nerves to the limbs, producing pain, paralysis, and swelling.
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It is inflammation of the nerve endings, mostly occurring in the tropics and resulting from a deficiency of vitamin B (thiamine).
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n] - avitaminosis caused by lack of thiamine (vitamin B1)
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noun avitaminosis caused by lack of thiamine (vitamin B1)
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Nutritional disorder occurring mostly in the tropics and resulting from a deficiency of vitamin B
1 (thiamine). The disease takes two forms: in one oedema (waterlogging of the tissues) occurs; in the other there is severe emaciation. There is nerve degeneration in both forms and many victims succumb to heart failure
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a disease of the peripheral nerves caused by a deficiency of vitamin B, characterized by pain in and paralysis of the extremities, and severe emaciation or swelling of the body.
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