thiamin deficiency

thiamin deficiency

A vitamin deficiency characterised by malnutrition, softened bones and mental depression, due to an absence of dietary thiamin. The clinical disease, beri-beri, is divided into a “wet” form, which causes congestive heart failure, and a “dry” form, which causes neurologic disease in the form of peripheral neuropathy and Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome.

thiamin deficiency

Beri-beri Nutrition A vitamin deficiency characterized by malnutrition, softened bones, depression, due to an absence of dietary thiamin; the clinical disease is divided into 'wet' beri-beri, which causes CHF and 'dry' beri-beri, which causes neurologic disease in the form of peripheral neuropathy and Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome. See Thiamin.