Definition of Beribiri
||Be`ri*be"ri (&?;), n. [Singhalese
beri weakness.] An acute disease occurring in India,
characterized by multiple inflammatory changes in the nerves, producing
great muscular debility, a painful rigidity of the limbs, and
cachexy.
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
- (pathology) an ailment caused by a deficiency of thiamine (vitamin B1)
- The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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