beriberin.

Forms: Also (all obsolete) beriberia, beriberii, beribery, berri berri.

Etymology: A Sinhalese word, < beri weakness; the reduplication being intensive.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈberiˈberi.

Medicine.

An acute disease generally presenting dropsical symptoms, with paralytic weakness and numbness of the legs, prevalent in many parts of India.

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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).

单词	beriberi
释义	beriberin. Forms: Also (all obsolete) beriberia, beriberii, beribery, berri berri. Etymology: A Sinhalese word, < beri weakness; the reduplication being intensive.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈberiˈberi. 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). < n.1704
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