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Definition: Beriberi |
BeriberiNoun1. Avitaminosis caused by lack of thiamine (vitamin B1). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Note: Beriberi \Be`ri*be"ri\, noun. [Singhalese beri weakness.]. (Websters 1913) |
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Botanical | A disease due to thiamin deficiency. Treated with Hymenaea. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Beriberi occurs in people whose staple diet consists mainly of polished white rice, which has little or no thiamine. Therefore the disease has been seen traditionally in people in Asian countries and in chronic alcoholics with impaired liver function. If a baby is fed the milk of a mother who suffers from a deficiency in thiamine, the child may develop beriberi.
There are two forms of the disease: wet beriberi and dry beriberi. Wet beriberi affects the heart; it is sometimes fatal, as it causes a combination of heart failure and weakening of the capillary walls, which causes the peripheral tissues to become waterlogged. Dry beriberi causes wasting and partial paralysis resulting from damage to the peripheral nerves.
The first stage in discovering the cause of beriberi was in the 1890s, when a Dutch doctor, Christiaan Eijkman, found that fowls fed only on polished rice developed similar symptoms to his patients who had beriberi, and that they could be cured if they were also fed some of the husks from the rice grains. In 1912, Casimir Funk isolated the anti-beriberi factor from rice and called it vitamine - an amine essential for life. In the 1930s, the chemical formula of this vitamin B1 was published by Robert R. Williams, and it was named thiamine.
Treatment is with thiamine hydrochloride, either in tablet form or injection. A rapid and dramatic recovery can be made when this is administered to patients with wet beriberi and their health can be transformed within an hour of administration of the treatment. Thiamine occurs naturally in fresh foods and cereals, particularly fresh meat, legumes, green vegetables, fruit, and milk.
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Crosswords: Beriberi |
| English words defined with "beriberi": aneurin, antiberiberi factor ♦ Barbiers ♦ Christiaan Eijkman ♦ Eijkman ♦ kakke disease ♦ thiamin, thiamine ♦ vitamin B1. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "beriberi": infantile beri-beri. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Beriberi" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. German (beri-beri), Hungarian (beriberi), Italian (beriberi), Serbo-Croatian (beriberi), Spanish (beriberi), Swedish (beriberi), Turkish (beriberi). |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Female suffering from Beriberi caused by thiamine deficiency.Credit: CDC. |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
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beriberi | 71 |
beriberi disease | 2 |
beriberi biologia | 2 |
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Arabic | البرى بري. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | бери-бери. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | beriberi. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | beriberi, polyneuritis endemica, perneiras, paneuritis epidemica, kakke, inchacao, hinchazon, endemische multiple neuritis,loempe, asjike. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | بیماری کمبودویتامنB , بری بری . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | béribéri. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Beriberi (beri-beri), Reisesser-Krankheit, perneiras, loempl, kakké, inchacao, hinchazon, asjike. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | μπέρι-μπέρι, ενδημική μορφή πολυνευρίτιδασ, ενδημική πολυνευρίτις από αβιταμίνωση B1. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | beriberi. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | beriberi. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 脚気 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | かっけ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | yn chingys Injinagh. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | eriberibay beribéri. (various references) авитаминоз (avitaminoses, avitaminosis, deficiency disease, vitamin deficiency), бери-бери. (various references) beriberi. (various references) beriberi. (various references) beriberi. (various references) beriberi. (various references) авітаміноз (avitaminosis). (various references) bệnh bêribêri. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Words beginning with "beriberi": beriberis. (additional references) | |
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"Beriberi" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Barberi, Barbiere, Beerenberg, berberi, Berebury. (additional references) | |
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| Words rhyming with "beriberi" (pronounced 'Be`ri*be"ri'): Alizari, Aracari, Bouri, Cabbiri, Cachiri, Certiorari, Crypturi, Curare, Curari, Flos-ferri, HOURI, Humiri, Louri, Ouakari, sari, Tisri, uakari, Vari, woorari. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-b-e-e-i-i-r-r" | |
-1 letter: ribbier. | |
-2 letters: bribee, briber, ribber, ribier. | |
-3 letters: bribe, brier, rebbe. | |
-4 letters: beer, bier, birr, bree, brie. | |
-5 letters: bee, bib, brr, ebb, ere, err, ire, reb, ree, rei, rib. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-b-e-e-i-i-r-r" | |
+1 letter: beriberis, briberies. | |
+2 letters: bilberries. | |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000010 01100101 01110010 01101001 01100010 01100101 01110010 01101001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B e r i b e r i |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 0065 0072 0069 0062 0065 0072 0069 |
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