pellagra

From Lombard pellagra, probably from Latin pellis (“skin”) + Lombard -agra (“sour”).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /pɪˈlaɡɹə/, /pɛˈlaɡɹə/

pellagra (countable and uncountable, plural pellagras)

1. (pathology) A disease characterised by skin lesions and mental confusion, primarily caused by a niacin deficiency. [from 19th c.]
   • 1997, Roy Porter, The Greatest Benefit to Mankind, Folio Society, published 2016, page 531:

     In 1755 the French physician Gaspar Casal (1680–1759) published an account of pellagra, then a new disease in Spain.

   • 2016, Joseph Henrich, chapter 7, in The Secret of Our Success […] , Princeton: Princeton University Press, →ISBN:

     Mixing the alkali into the recipe in the right way chemically releases the otherwise unavailable niacin in the corn, which stops pellagra in its tracks, and allowed corn-based agricultural populations to grow and spread.

• pellagric
• pellagrous

From Lombard pellagra.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpelːɑɡrɑ/, [ˈpe̞lːɑ̝ɡrɑ̝]
• Rhymes: -elːɑɡrɑ
• Syllabification^(key): pel‧lag‧ra
• Hyphenation^(key): pel‧lag‧ra

pellagra

1. (pathology) pellagra

• IPA^(key): /pelˈla.ɡra/
• Rhymes: -aɡra
• Hyphenation: pel‧là‧gra

pellagra f (plural pellagre)

1. (pathology) pellagra

• pelle
• pellagroso
• podagra

• pellagra in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana