noun
definition
A disease characterised by skin lesions and mental confusion, primarily caused by a niacin deficiency.
Examples of pellagra in a Sentence
The peasantry suffer much from pellagra.
There and in Lombardy the disease known as pellagra is most widely diffused.
Extreme niacin deficiency results in a condition called pellagra, one of the negative side effects.
Pellagra was common in the past when poverty led to malnutrition or where corn was a main staple and was prepared and stored in such a way that niacin was depleted from food.
Malaria, dysentery and the vitamin deficiency disease pellagra attacked the prisoners.
In those with carcinoid syndrome features of pellagra, tricuspid regurgitation or pulmonary stenosis may be present.
Niacin deficiency results in pellagra, which involves skin rashes and scabs, diarrhea, and mental depression.
Niacin supplementation prevents pellagra, a disease that occurs in people who rely heavily on corn as the main source of food and who do not eat much meat or milk.
A bill for the better prevention of pellagra was introduced in the spring of 1902.
Pellagra causes skin lesions that appear to be leprosy, sensitivity to light, aggression, insomnia, weakness, mental confusion, paralysis of limbs, diarrhea and eventually dementia.