Pellagra

Definition: Pellagra

Pellagra

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.

Date "pellagra" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1881. (references)

Synonyms: Pellagra

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

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Specialty Definition: Pellagra

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Pellagra is a disease of malnutrition caused by dietary lack of niacin and protein.

Symptoms include skin eruptons, digestive and nervous system disturbances, and may eventually cause mental deterioration.

It is one of several diseases of malnutrition common in Africa.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Pellagra."

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Crosswords: Pellagra

English words defined with "pellagra": Pellagrin. (references)

Specialty definitions using "pellagra": Niacinamide. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Pellagra" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses.

Hungarian (pellagra).

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Commercial Usage: Pellagra

Domain	Title
Books	Miseria e malattie nel XIX secolo : i ceti popolari nell'Italia centrale fra tifo petecchiale e pellagra (reference) Pellagra (reference) (more book examples)
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Photo Album: Pellagra

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	Dr. Joseph Goldberger conducted the first nutritional research by the Hygienic Laboratory on Staten Island in 1914. He discovered that Pellagra, a disease that caused red and scaly skin, diarrhea, depression and insanity, was caused by vitamin deficiencies.Credit: Unknown photographer/artist.		[Kitchen at pellagra laboratory].Credit: National Library of Medicine.
	Mrs. Lloyd, ninety-one year old mother of Miss Nettie Lloyd, who is a pellagra victim. Mrs. Lloyd was born and reared in Orange County; has lived on this spot since her marriage sixty-nine years ago. It is on a new road leading off from left of Route numb.Credit: Library of Congress.		Mrs. Lloyd, ninety-one year-old victim of pellagra, mother of Miss Nettie Lloyd, was born and reared in Orange County and has lived on this spot since her marriage sixty-nine years ago. This is the road leading off from left of Route 54 about four miles w.Credit: Library of Congress.
	Mrs. Lloyd, ninety-one year-old victim of pellagra, mother of Miss Nettie Lloyd, was born and reared in Orange County and has lived on this spot since her marriage sixty-nine years ago. This is the road leading off from left of Route 54 about four miles w.Credit: Library of Congress.		Miss Nettie Lloyd, pellagra victim, by their old well house. Orange County, North Carolina.Credit: Library of Congress.
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Use in Literature: Pellagra

Title	Author	Quote
Grapes of Wrath	Steinbeck, John	And children dying of pellagra must die because a profit cannot be taken from an orange.
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Usage Frequency: Pellagra

"Pellagra" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Pellagra" is used about 4 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	4	175,879

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: Pellagra

Expression using "pellagra": infantile pellagra. Additional references.
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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Pellagra

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.

Expression	Frequency per Day
pellagra	57
pellagra picture	5
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Modern Translations: Pellagra

Language		Translations for "pellagra"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		pelagër. (various references)

Bulgarian		пелагра. (various references)

Danish		pellagra. (various references)

Dutch		pellagra, mal rosso, maidismus, lepra italica, dermatagra. (various references)

French		pellagre. (various references)

German		Pellagra, Maisvergiftung, Maiskrankheit, Maidismus, Lepra asturica s.lombardica, Italienischer oder Mailändischer Aussatz, Erythema endemicum, Elephantiasis italica, Dermatagra. (various references)

Greek		πελλάγρα. (various references)

Hungarian		pellagra. (various references)

Italian		pellagra. (various references)

Pig Latin		ellagrapay

Portuguese		pelica (chevrette, fell, glacé kid, gloving kid, kid, kief), pelagra (pellet). (various references)

Romanian		pelagrã. (various references)

Russian		пеллагра. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		pelagra. (various references)

Spanish		pelagra. (various references)

Turkish		pelegra, vitamin eksikliği. (various references)

Ukranian		пелагра. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Pellagra

Derivations
	Words beginning with "pellagra": pellagras. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Pellagra" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Ellauria, Pelagia, pelagian, pelasgian, peligra, Peligro, Pelletreau, pelligrini, Pelligrino. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Pellagra"

Words rhyming with "pellagra" (pronounced 'Pel"la*gra'): Almagra, Chiragra, Mentagra, Omagra, Podagra. (additional references)

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Anagrams: Pellagra

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-e-g-l-l-p-r"
	-2 letters: aglare, alegar, earlap, laager, paella, paleal, plagal.
	-3 letters: agape, algae, algal, areal, argal, argle, galea, gaper, glare, graal, grape, lager, lapel, large, legal, pager, palea, paler, parae, parge, parle, pearl, plage, regal.
	-4 letters: agar, ager, alae, alar, alga, aper, area, earl, egal, gala, gale, gall, gape, gear, leal, leap, lear, page, pale, pall.
	Words containing the letters "a-a-e-g-l-l-p-r"
	+1 letter: paralegal, pellagras.
	+2 letters: aspergilla, paralegals.
	+3 letters: apparelling, paralleling.
	+4 letters: calligrapher, parallelling, wallpapering.
	+5 letters: calligraphers, calligraphies, graphemically, metallography, panegyrically, parallelogram, praxeological.
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