† pellagroseadj.
Medicine. Obsolete.
= pellagrous adj. In quots.: (with the) pellagrous people as a class.
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podagre?a1425
podagric1692
arthritic1801
pellagrose1864
pellagrin1865
1864 Year-bk. Med. 1863 (New Sydenham Soc.) 176k Phthisis and scrofula do not appear to be at all prevalent among the pellagrose.
1874 J. C. Bucknill & D. H. Tuke Man. Psychol. Med. (ed. 3) 364 The total number of pellagrose in the Milanese provinces in 1856 was..16·3 per 1000 of the population. Of these,..9 per cent. were insane.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online June 2018).
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