beriberi in the Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary

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beriberi [Brit ˌbɛrɪˈbɛri, Am ˌbɛriˈbɛri] N

beriberi

béribéri m

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For example, the article on the vitamin deficiency disease beriberi speculates that it is caused by a fungus, vitamins not having been discovered at the time.

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A serious deficiency in this vital nutrient can cause beriberi, which has the immediate symptom of severe lethargy.

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As a prison camp physician, he treated diseases and conditions such as beriberi, dengue fever, dysentery, malaria, and malnutrition.

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Characteristics of wet beriberi include prominent edema and cardiac involvement, whereas dry beriberi is mainly characterized by a polyneuritis.

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Before beginning treatment, prisoners exhibited symptoms of dry or wet beriberi with neurological signs (swarming: 41%), cardiovascular signs (dyspnoea: 42%, thoracic pain: 35%), and oedemas of the lower limbs (51%).

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