Meanings
nounpellagrin (plural pellagrins)
plural pellagrins
- 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 Encyclopædia1 more example
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
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