pellagra
English
Etymology
From Italian pellagra, probably from Latin pellis (“skin”) + Italian -agra in e.g. chiragra, podagra.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /pɪˈlaɡɹə/, /pɛˈlaɡɹə/
Noun
pellagra (countable and uncountable, plural pellagras)
- (pathology) A disease characterised by skin lesions and mental confusion, primarily caused by a niacin deficiency. [from 19th c.]
- 1997, Roy Porter, The Greatest Benefit to Mankind, Folio Society 2016, p. 531:
- 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 2016, p. 531:
Related terms
Finnish
Declension
| Inflection of pellagra (Kotus type 9/kala, no gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | pellagra | — | |
| genitive | pellagran | — | |
| partitive | pellagraa | — | |
| illative | pellagraan | — | |
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | pellagra | — | |
| accusative | nom. | pellagra | — |
| gen. | pellagran | ||
| genitive | pellagran | — | |
| partitive | pellagraa | — | |
| inessive | pellagrassa | — | |
| elative | pellagrasta | — | |
| illative | pellagraan | — | |
| adessive | pellagralla | — | |
| ablative | pellagralta | — | |
| allative | pellagralle | — | |
| essive | pellagrana | — | |
| translative | pellagraksi | — | |
| instructive | — | — | |
| abessive | pellagratta | — | |
| comitative | — | — | |
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