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‖ ˈberiˈberi Med.
Also (all obs.) beriberia, beriberii, beribery, berri berri.
[A Sinhalese word, f. beri weakness; the reduplication being intensive.]
An acute disease generally presenting dropsical symptoms, with paralytic weakness and numbness of the legs, prevalent in many parts of India.
1703tr. Nieuhoff's Voy. in A. & J. Churchill Voy. (1704) II. 340/2 They [sc. the shrubs] have a peculiar Virtue..to cure the Indian Gout or Barrenness, called Beribery. 1769tr. Bontius's Acc. Diseases of East Indies i. 1, The inhabitants of the East Indies are much afflicted with a troublesome disorder which they call the Beriberii (a word signifying a sheep). The disease has, probably, received this denomination on account that those who are seized with it..exhibit to the fancy a representation of the gait of that animal. 1832H. S. Fleming in Fort St. George Gaz. 12 May 1 On the disease called ‘Beriberi’. 1879Khorz Princ. Med. 84 In beriberi there is scurvy from the first. 1884Yule Anglo-Ind. Gloss. s.v., In 1879 the total number of beri-beri patients..amounted to 9873. |