deficiency disease

How To Use deficiency disease In A Sentence

• It was assumed to be a traveler's version of the widespread tropical deficiency disease called kwashiorkor, from a Gold Coast term meaning "displaced child. VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XX No 1
• This is an extremely low level, and it represents only the amount needed to prevent health problems such as scurvy, a vitamin deficiency disease.
• Thus the successful combating of certain disturbances in the activities of the organs of internal secretion, as also of the deficiency diseases, or avitaminoses, has been a direct result of the increase in our knowledge of the nature of these afflictions. Physiology or Medicine 1945 - Presentation Speech
• In order to control frequent deficiency diseases, effects of spraying nutrient elements on Pistacia veraL.
• Lack of minerals can cause deficiency diseases.
• Since 2005, HHS has agreed to add to its recommended list severe combined immunodeficiency disease, or "bubble boy disease," and is still considering whether to add a congenital heart condition. New Tests for Newborns, And Dilemmas for Parents
• Overt vitamin deficiency diseases, such as pellagra or scurvy, are uncommon in persons who consume a typical North American diet.
• A different deficiency disease called pellagra struck the rural poor in Europe and the southern United States in the 18th and 19th centuries, when they adopted corn from Central and South America as a staple food, but without the processing method cooking in alkaline water that makes its stores of niacin available to the human body. On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen
• This was determined to be one of the vitamins that prevented beriberi, a deficiency disease marked by inflammatory or degenerative changes of the nerves, digestive system and heart.
• ADA deficiency can lead to one form of severe combined immunodeficiency disease