0 a disease caused by a deficiency of vitamin C in the diet, characterized by weakness, bleeding gums, and bleeding beneath the skin -- skurvi
Similar concern was expressed about the alleged scurvy treatment of the inhabitants of our tropical ex-dependencies.
The people of the area deserve better than this scurvy treatment.
Or is he prepared to allow the increasing poverty and homelessness on our streets to be accompanied by scurvy and rickets?
I am surprised to hear of the scurvy treatment meted out to the ten local government electors.
He carefully monitored the health and morale of them all, with vigilance against scurvy, although this was hardly likely on a diet of mainly seal and penguin.
Pellagra, ariboflavinosis and scurvy in infants appears to be a rare phenomenon.
Scurvy used to be the scourge of seamen on long voyages.
Specifically, younger adults rated "scurvy," "rubella," and "malaria" as the three least likely items, whereas older adults rated the "mumps," "cholera," and "polio" as the least likely items.
