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Alpine Scurvy

Definition: Alpine Scurvy

Alpine Scurvy

Noun

1. A disease caused by deficiency of niacin or tryptophan (or by a defect in the metabolic conversion of tryptophan to niacin); characterized by gastrointestinal disturbances and erythema and nervous or mental disorders; may be caused by malnutrition or alcoholism or other nutritional impairments.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonyms: Alpine Scurvy

Synonyms: maidism (n), mal de la rosa (n), mal rosso (n), mayidism (n), pellagra (n). (additional references)

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Anagrams: Alpine Scurvy

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-e-i-l-n-p-r-s-u-v-y"

-3 letters: culverins, cursively, peculiars, pecuniary, picayunes, superlain, universal, vesicular, virulency, vulcanise.

-4 letters: acervuli, auricles, calipers, capelins, carlines, cavilers, cislunar, claviers, cleanups, cravenly, culinary, culverin, cyprians, incurves, inlayers, lanciers, lucarnes, lunacies, panicles, parvenus, peculiar, pelicans, picayune, plausive, pleurisy, pralines, prevails, princely, pulvinar, purlines, purslane, ravelins, replicas, saliency, sapiency, scurvily, specular, spiculae, spicular, spinulae, spiracle.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Alpine Scurvy


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

41 6C 70 69 6E 65      53 63 75 72 76 79

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000001 01101100 01110000 01101001 01101110 01100101 00100000 01010011 01100011 01110101 01110010 01110110 01111001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#65 &#108 &#112 &#105 &#110 &#101 &#32 &#83 &#99 &#117 &#114 &#118 &#121

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0041 006C 0070 0069 006E 0065      0053 0063 0075 0072 0076 0079

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

3578827580712536987848891

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Anagrams
4. Orthography
5. Bibliography


  

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