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pellagras

pellagras is the plural of pellagra.

Meaning of pellagra

Noun

pellagra (countable and uncountable, plural pellagras)

  1. A disease characterised by skin lesions and mental confusion, primarily caused by a niacin deficiency.
    • In 1755 the French physician Gaspar Casal (1680–1759) published an account of pellagra, then a new disease in Spain.1997, Roy Porter, The Greatest Benefit to Mankind, Folio Society, published 2016, page 531

Questions about pellagras

What is pellagras the plural of?
Pellagras is the plural of pellagra.

Words near pellagras in the dictionary

  1. pellack
  2. pellacks
  3. pellage
  4. pellagra
  5. pellagragenic
  6. pellagras
  7. pellagric
  8. pellagrin
  9. pellagrins
  10. pellagroid
  11. pellagrose

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