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pellagrin

pellagrin noun: one who is afflicted with pellagra.

Noun

pellagrin (plural pellagrins)

  1. One who is afflicted with pellagra.
    • The extent of the ravages of this affection may be estimated from the facts, that of 500 patients in the Milan Lunatic Asylum in 1827, one third were pellagrins […]1871, Chambers's Encyclopædia
    • In two patients the course was complicated by cerebral embolism with hemiplegia; one of these, the pellagrin, died and at necropsy the heart was markedly enlarged […]1972, D. J. M. Vorster, The human biology of environmental change

Forms of pellagrin

pluralpellagrins

Questions about pellagrin

What does pellagrin mean?
Pellagrin means one who is afflicted with pellagra.
What part of speech is pellagrin?
Pellagrin is a noun.
What is the plural of pellagrin?
The plural of pellagrin is pellagrins.

Words near pellagrin in the dictionary

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

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