BERIBERI
\bˌɛɹɪbˈɛɹi], \bˌɛɹɪbˈɛɹi], \b_ˌɛ_ɹ_ɪ_b_ˈɛ_ɹ_i]\
Definitions of BERIBERI
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- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - Medical Dictionary Database
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1908 - Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary of the English Language
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1919 - The concise Oxford dictionary of current English
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
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By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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A disease caused by a deficiency of thiamine (vitamin B1) and characterized by polyneuritis, cardiac pathology, and edema. The epidemic form is found primarily in areas in which white (polished) rice is the staple food, as in Japan, China, the Philippines, India, and other countries of southeast Asia. (Dorland, 27th ed)
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
By William R. Warner
By Thomas Davidson
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From beri in the Singhalese language, which signifies 'weakness;' therefore, beriberi, 'great weakness.' This word is also said to be Hindusthanee, and to mean a sheep.-Bontius. Beriberi is an Indian disease, little known in Europe. It consists in debility and tremors of the limbs,-sometimes, indeed, of the whole body; with painful numbness of the affected parts, &c.:-the patient walking doubled, and imitating the movements of sheep! Some authors have esteemed it rheumatic; others, paralytic; others, to be a kind of chorea. It is, almost always, incurable; is rarely fatal; and is treated by exercise, stimulant friction, sudorifics, &c. It is sometimes called Bar'biers, but this would seem to be a different disease.
By Robley Dunglison
By Sir Augustus Henry
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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