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beriberi

noun

beri·​beri ˈber-ē-ˈber-ē How to pronounce beriberi (audio)
ˈbe-rē-ˈbe-rē
: a deficiency disease marked by inflammatory or degenerative changes of the nerves, digestive system, and heart and caused by a lack of or inability to assimilate thiamine

Example Sentences

Recent Examples on the Web Like scurvy, beriberi can be found in people who lack fresh food. Livia Gershon, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 May 2021 Another raider died from beriberi while in captivity. Daniel Ford, WSJ, 2 Oct. 2020 Is there hope that the flop, like beriberi, will someday be eradicated? Scott Ostler, SFChronicle.com, 18 Dec. 2019 There were outbreaks of cholera, beriberi, dysentery, malaria. Carl Nolte, SFChronicle.com, 14 Sep. 2019 The two would go on to discover Vitamin B, which prevents the disease beriberi, a cause of nerve inflammation and heart failure. Mark Johnson, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 12 July 2018 If staple foods like rice fail to provide critical vitamins and minerals, illnesses like anemia and beriberi will rise, stalling progress in the climb out of poverty. Umair Irfan, Vox, 24 May 2018 By artificially adding vitamins and minerals back in, deficiency diseases like rickets and beriberi were largely eliminated from the Western world. Kyle Frischkorn, Smithsonian, 14 June 2017 In preserved food there are no vitamins, so a variety of nutritional diseases would be likely: lack of vitamin B1 would cause beriberi; no vitamin B3 would cause pellagra; and vitamin C, of course, scurvy. National Geographic, 15 Jan. 2017 See More

Word History

Etymology

Sinhalese bæribæri

First Known Use

1704, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of beriberi was in 1704

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