beriberi

Examples

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• They died... of malaria, dysentery, beriberi, gangrene.

  The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)

• You can't catch it because it's a deficiency disease like beriberi. "I never heard of that either," Shirl said.

  Fiction book (1993)

• The Golden Rice inventor hoped to help the people eating rice to prevent the debilitating beriberi disease.

  Blog text (14)

• Valiant member of the King's Own or the Queen's Own or something... who died of beriberi in the year of our Lord, 1 943... for the greater glory of... -

  The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)

• I'd just like to remind you that I was a POW for 5 1/2 years, and while I was being held captive in Vietnam, I didn't have a Blackberry phone, or a phone, berries, or even beriberi.

  Blog text (27)

• In the early part of the 20th century, a disease called beriberi—along with rickets, pellagra, and other afflictions caused by vitamin deficiency—afflicted millions of Americans.

  Blog text (3)

• Thiamin (vitamin B-1) deficiency results in a disease called beriberi, and the understanding of its relationship to polished rice in Asia preceded the isolation of the vitamin in 1926.

  Academic text (2004)

• The Golden Rice inventor hoped to help the people eating rice to prevent the debilitating beriberi disease.

• Thiamin (vitamin B-1) deficiency results in a disease called beriberi, and the understanding of its relationship to polished rice in Asia preceded the isolation of the vitamin in 1926.

• In the early part of the 20th century, a disease called beriberi—along with rickets, pellagra, and other afflictions caused by vitamin deficiency—afflicted millions of Americans.

Synonyms

K

kakke disease

vsberiberi

• Specialized

9.9

A disease caused by not having enough vitamin B1 that affects the heart and nerves

is the general disease from thiamine deficiency not a local subtype

Surface Forms

Etymology