scorbutus

IPA: skˈɔrbˈutʌs

Examples of "scorbutus" in Sentences

(_Synonyms: _ Scurvy; Sea Scurvy; Purpura Scorbutica.) #Describe scorbutus.
Others are sheer folk etymology, like scheurbuik ` ripping belly 'for scurvy (Lat. scorbutus).
Could those symptoms be owing to very extensive adhesions of the lungs? or is this a scorbutus pulmonalis?
The name Buckbean is perhaps a corruption of _scorbutus_, scurvy; this giving it another title, "scurvy bean."
The approximation of these two cases to sea-scurvy is peculiar, and may allow them to be called scorbutus pulmonalis.
The name scurvy comes from the Latin scorbutus, and humans have known about the disease since ancient Greek and Egyptian times ...
"To his sagacity we are indebted for the first impulse to those regulations by which scorbutus is so successfully prevented in our navy."
= Scurvy = — “scorbutus” of medical writers — is a disease which, even in its incipient and early stages, when its presence is often unsuspected, is most injurious to the skin and complexion.
This indicates on the one hand that the substance is an acid, on the other hand that it has a counteracting effect on scurvy, the medical name of which is scorbutus; thus the word ascorbic acid is equivalent to anti-scurvy acid.