NOUN
- a chronic disorder that occurs in tropical and non-tropical forms and in both children and adults; nutrients are not absorbed; symptoms include foul-smelling diarrhea and emaciation
How To Use tropical sprue In A Sentence
- Silver: Before the dawn of antibiotics, silver was used on the skin as an antimicrobial agent and disinfectant and internally to treat epilepsy, gonorrhea and tropical sprue.
- Next to tropical sprue, it is the most important cause of malabsorption syndrome in India.
- It may contribute to malabsorption in tropical sprue.
- I have non-tropical sprue, and I find it difficult to get enough grain servings in my diet.
- Also known as celiac sprue, nontropical sprue and gluten-sensitive enteropathy, celiac disease occurs in people who have a susceptibility to gluten intolerance.
- The patient was then started on tetracycline (presumably for empiric treatment of tropical sprue), which he continued for 1 year without symptomatic improvement.
