Definition of Antiscorbutic. Meaning of Antiscorbutic. Synonyms of Antiscorbutic

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Definition of Antiscorbutic

Antiscorbutic
Antiscorbutic An`ti*scor*bu"tic, a. (Med.) Counteracting scurvy. -- n. A remedy for scurvy.

Meaning of Antiscorbutic from wikipedia

- Navy and Merchant Marine's lime juice showed that it had virtually no antiscorbutic power at all. The belief that scurvy was fundamentally a nutritional...
- via chemical synthesis, but has no significant biological role. The antiscorbutic properties of certain foods were demonstrated in the 18th century by...
- British Royal Society awarded him the Copley Medal in 1776. The name antiscorbutic was used in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries for foods known...
- such as AA-2G, like many other derivatives of the ascorbic acid, show antiscorbutic effects. It is also sometimes used in skin whitening products. Ascorbyl...
- a fair antiscorbutic as well as a substitute for tea which is more costly." It was recommended as a tea alternative, tonic and antiscorbutic, and was...
- containing up to 38 mg (0.59 gr) per 100 grams (3.5 oz). It was used as an antiscorbutic by British Arctic explorers. Blubber is also a source of vitamin D....
- long-sought antiscorbutic factor, henceforth known as vitamin C. After Walter Norman Haworth had determined its structure, the antiscorbutic was given the...
- cannulated cows to determine that a vitamin-rich diet makes for more antiscorbutic milk than a vitamin-poor diet, and a 2004 study used cannulated cows...
- extracted in bulk from Hungarian paprika. In honour of the compound's antiscorbutic properties, Haworth and Szent-Györgyi now proposed the new name of "a-scorbic...
- ISBN 978-0789018441. Stubbs, Brett J. (June 2003). "Captain Cook's beer: the antiscorbutic use of malt and beer in late 18th century sea voyages". Asia Pacific...