| 单词 | beriberi | 
| 释义 | beriberin. Medicine.   An acute disease generally presenting dropsical symptoms, with paralytic weakness and numbness of the legs, prevalent in many parts of India. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > disordered nutrition > 			[noun]		 > diseases of malnutrition > beriberi barbiers1698 beriberi1704 kakke1874 1704    tr.  J. Nieuhof Voy. E.-Indies in  A. Churchill  & J. Churchill Coll. Voy. II. 340/2  				They [sc. the shrubs] have a peculiar Virtue..to cure the Indian Gout or Barrenness, called Beribery. 1769    tr.  J. de Bondt Acct. Dis. E. 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. 1832    H. S. Fleming in  Fort St. George Gaz. 12 May 1  				On the disease called ‘Beriberi’. 1879    R. N. Khory Digest Med. 84  				In beriberi there is scurvy from the first. 1886    H. Yule  & A. C. Burnell Hobson-Jobson (at cited word)  				In 1879 the total number of beri-beri patients..amounted to 9873. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online December 2020). <  | 
	
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